Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
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.
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney