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

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

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

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies