Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked