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

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

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

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

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 speaker is Phil Burns, owner of the brokerage firm that Owen Mitchell has had money invested with for years. Owen’s not rich and not poor. He just prefers the action of the stock ma...

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.