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.
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
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,
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but