He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
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...
Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Young Tim goes to Zaire to write his dissertation in African Studies. While there he meets and marries a beautiful librarian
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
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.
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.