Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
It was always a lovely yard, the grass green, never a weed. Dandelions in spring were an endangered species as soon as she spotted them.
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…