The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
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…
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...
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother