You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be