This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.