In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
On Sundays Walter gives Pastor J… magazines to read along with comments on his sermons. The pastor loves the magazines but Walter is leaving for another…
So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
Someone broke in the house the weekend the elderly couple was out of town, a family thing. The TV, the couch and computer were gone.
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.
