Things In Life

Go on, please turn your head this way.I close my eyes, and you’re all I see.The best things in life … More

Long May She Wave

Yet no one passing by stoops to retrievethis fragment of our flag oddlyleft to weather on the roadside.Tattered and fading … More

This morning I had an enormous idea.I’m talking it was spectacular, my friends. I woke up from a dream where … More

I’m standing in the supermarket again, reaching in my pocketfor the list I wrote out on the breakfast counter at … More

I learned recently that Claude Monet wanted mostto paint the air between himself and his subject.I’m still trying to wrap … More

From up here it’s simple to say you see what this legendary saga of long ago is all about. His … More

When you can’t kill the deer it’s okay to say okay. Give in to life and let live. The one … More

for Billy Collins I can’t resist the temptationto write about you, old man,eating alone at the corner table in a … More

If I’ve told these people once, I’ve told them a thousand times:let sleeping dragons lie, folks, for roused, they’re bad … More

Holy moly, how this warrior keeps waltzing out of hell;It would be a drag, I suppose, if he lost a … More

She’s one ugly mother, but I’ve witnessed worse,turned down dates with women not far from this foul.I have standards, you … More

I see him limp home, his arm torn from his shoulder,mumbling weird words about a mighty stranger,some foreign crazed killer … More

Now he knew he’d see anything coming.Whatever it was, it couldn’t hide from or surprise him.He’d been taken unawares before, … More

I saw his claws. They resembled handswrapped around a sword’s handle too tightly,bloodless white in the fearful death-gripof his cautions … More

He walked our hill with a cane, his limp noticeable.My father asked him about it.He’d been disabled in combat in … More

Bob’s alarm jerked him out of a bad dream. When he opened his eyes, he was saved from a grand … More

You look at me as if what you seeshould make you mean something moreto you than what you are. I … More