Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t