During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

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

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them