What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

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

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings