It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

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

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family