Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
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…
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
