She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
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
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,