They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
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
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails