What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

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

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up