Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

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

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening