Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,