Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
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
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies