A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

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

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

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

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird