Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

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

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

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

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids