Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Christmas lights ring the house and carols play. Todd decorates his grand Victorian

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

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

What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows

For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it