Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman