It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep