a haiku
Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
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…
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
