It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

Let me be a star and shine in places darkness dwells or let me be a bell and ring in places

Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,

What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.