Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed