A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
After the Spring rain a dove on a Dogwood branch preens like a starlet
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.
Wally Anderson, father of three daughters, was not pleased after reading an email from Shelly, his eldest, a week before Father’s Day. He thought she might be coming to visit for the ho...
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
