Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.

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

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

My boss has a problem with God or rather a problem with me because I believe in God and he doesn’t. Or so we discover

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.