a haiku
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers