Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

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.

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

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,

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

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 Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet