Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

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

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…