When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till

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,

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a