So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
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
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…