She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
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
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
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...
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
