She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.

Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,