Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…
“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example
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...
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening