A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,