As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport