He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,