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

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

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

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,