Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
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…
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought