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…

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...

It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…