Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
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…
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world