America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

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

That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

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