Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for ...
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even
It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right
Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two
Wally read something he thought good advice for those who lose the race. “Make friends of the
Jane told Tarzan toodle-oo and moved away to Arizona because although it’s hot out ther… it’s a dry heat and not the swamp of heat she found herself panting
If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,