It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.