Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

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

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…