The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

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…

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

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

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother