My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

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

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...

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear