Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
The speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,