Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian