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It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
It’s a very busy drug store with seats along the wall where folks who wait for refills sit and sometimes chat but as I discover you can
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…