Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t