a senryu
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,
Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
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,
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.
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...
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…