There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”