There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

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,

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

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

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

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

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.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian