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Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.