Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
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,
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
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
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
