If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you

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.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

Twin sons in different cities decked out in new suits fly home for the holidays arrive at the airport

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower