The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
