Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even