Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
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.
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she