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…

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

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

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up