They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,
Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
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…
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and