I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
Please tell me if I’m right about what you just told me. You say he came to Earth, died for me, rose from the dead
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
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…
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
