Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...
I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
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…
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
