An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken