after Baghdad
It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back
Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
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
Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…