I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
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…
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
Miss Goody Two-Shoes’ sweaters aren’t too tight, skirts aren’t too straight and heels aren’t too high. She’s a swan gliding
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
