Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go