Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
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.
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.