The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

It’s Ramadan and late one evening I walk by a mosque and hear little girls laughing on the sidewalk,

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

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