On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
I can’t speak for other men but as I grow older I have found listening to my wife makes life easier. So when she said we should move to a retirement community while we’re still in reaso...
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney