After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Some emails are more difficult to receive from a child long out of college
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
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
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me
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
Your life as explained in your letter recently received is very difficult to read. It’s been 40 years since we last saw each other or talked. Most of your problems I knew nothing about....
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...