Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over