We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

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

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.

Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.