The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach