I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

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