Okay

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

Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant

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…

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

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

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,…

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

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

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

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

I know after the misty cranberry bogsof an early Minnesota morning, drivingeast at first light, Wisconsin’s waitingfor me, the way…

The pain splatters my skin like the firstmonster drops of rain before the torrents.It happened so fast, I thought my…

Adopted 15 months ago by completechance meeting. A Humane Society rescuefrom an abusive environment, she’s alwaysthere for me, my baby…

I’m not sure why you and I called it a carpool. It wasjust we two, and I always drove. There…

She turns both the box cover and bottom over, taps themon the coffee table, asks me did I hide the…

For the first two years in Madison, I live in Susan Bradford Hall. It’s on Greek Row. Once a dorm…