Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

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

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings