The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
