Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
