a haiku
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
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
