I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

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,