Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
The problem with Chloe is she moved to San Diego where the weather’s fair but hasn’t found anyone who’ll listen to her so she
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana