Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
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,
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,