Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...
All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength