America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,