Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
Emma used to do real good in schoo… her mother tells her new teacher. It’s Parents Night at Ryland Ele… Mostly mothers in attendance. What’s the problem, her mother ask…
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she