Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

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

After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,