They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

“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

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

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

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.