Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
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.
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by