If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them