Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

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,

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

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

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…