All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other