After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.