Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
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
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
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.
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year