Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
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.
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,