Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?