So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Two men running for office disagree about everything but have one thing in common. They won’t release their tax returns.

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God, Jesus told his disciples.

Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…