You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

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,

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose