Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

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

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

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.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he