I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because