In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna had always had trouble with men. It started in high school when Ed… big for her age, hosted the soccer… one by one, provided they won.
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections
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…
Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...