You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.