We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,