I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

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

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

Hillary was at the podium setting the record straight for people who have a problem with the tone of her voice. She said when Bill was

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew