In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman

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…

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.