It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

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

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.