Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
