Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
Grandpa has a grandson he hopes will win a scholarship to meet the high cost of college. He tells his grandson to learn how to play the tuba and apply
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
Where did it go? I really don’t know. I lost it weeks ago in the middle of the night. Too tired to get up.
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead