If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
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,
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
Grandma Gretchen’s in her rocker and she has something to say. She tells a visitor, a young man from the city, if he plans to write a book about life on a farm in the Fifties, he likely...
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
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,