For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
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
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings