She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

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

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…