Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
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
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
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
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain