It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes