We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
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...
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have