One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
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…
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing