Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God