Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

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

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

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,

Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop

Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up