When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

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:

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours