Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
When Fred was a boy, he heard his… talk about Grandpa going to town d… to sell the bounty of his harvest. On his farm he had eggs, butter an… vegetables and meat. He’d buy suga…
Sometimes a woman leaves a man for another man or just leaves. Sometimes a woman
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
Let’s check the terminal and see what jobs might be available to match your skill set, the interviewer said. The young man
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
