Congregation

Congregation I was one of them, gathering together to ask the Lord’s blessing, every Sunday singing with the rest, how…

Remember the time in the laundry room?

I sat perched atop one of the dryers in our apartment building basement, absorbing warmth, enjoying the rumbling spin of…

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself…

Exactly a year from now, I wonder ifI’ll be sitting at my computer writing something?I believe I foresee a good…

I’m No Astronomer I don’t know if this is scientifically accurate,but the whole thing bugs me along these lines.Today I…

That silver flame subdued all color into black and white. Remembering neon paint and black light nights. I recall the…

Was it 40 or 50 years ago now that my sisterconvinced me to try online dating? I’ve losttrack of how…

I’ve had this dream before, variations of it, many times.This morning it was my final dream of the night,so right…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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