First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.
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...
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...