Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…
It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
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
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
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.
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
