Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.