We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

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…

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to