Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…