An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues