A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

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