It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

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

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm