This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees
It boils down to this. There are two kinds of people in Upper Slobovia at the moment, those who prefer hard-boiled eggs chopped in their potato salad
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…