Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

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