They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

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

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...