Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
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