If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

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.

Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people

Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an eth...

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

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when