We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
A few years ago Herb Adams, a plumber by trade, went with his wife, Ellie, to her flower show where many ladies and a few men displayed their skill arranging flowers they had grown in t...
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
