If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
Heaven’s Sake or maybe Hell No. Even if we weigh a ton our body’s not a problem
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
