Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

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.