All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places
Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."