It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
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
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially