Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
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
Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV