It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places