Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,

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

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

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