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

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

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

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,