When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

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

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

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

According to reports certain White House interns past, present and future are asking Americans not to vote for Hillary

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I