He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

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,

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

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…

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,