Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.

I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

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

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register