A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

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

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers