Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences