Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

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

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

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

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard