I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
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
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…