Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian
Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
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.
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…