White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

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…

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

Drive around almost any city and you will find the homeless napping on a bench. Folks who drive to church on Sund… often view the homeless as litter

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