They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
