Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
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.
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength
