Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
Memories never go away. They’re visitors from yesterday arriving unannounced often to a mixed reception. Faces aren’t clear but
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock
There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go
