We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him