Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
