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 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.

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,

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,