Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.