You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people