Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
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
There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
