I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play
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,
After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
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.
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat