a senryu
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
On a sunny day in Harvard Yard blonde from Norway weds son of chieftain from Rwanda after
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
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
