You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude
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…
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…