Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
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
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem