An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

After two thousand years we still have folks who blame the Jews for killing Christ even though Pilate the Gentile could have

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain