In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

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

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…