No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

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

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

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 ...

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes