You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
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
I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.