It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service