after Baghdad
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
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
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field