Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
