This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
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,
Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…
Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine