You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
