After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

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

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.