Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

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

After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men