Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.