A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…