When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,

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

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Am I right or am I right, one neighbor asked the other as they walked the few blocks to vote in different primaries. Some people make a good

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…