When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
I am sorry to hear the news. I lost it when I heard about hers and now to hear about yours. I’m livid at times, peaceful rarel… If you prefer, I won’t forward em…
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
