Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...

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

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

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

Beautiful lady in the checkout lan… is spotted by Roscoe, a wealthy ma… wandering in Walmart. He admires her chocolate hair, bonbon eyes, vanilla creme complexion, a walk

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

My father never talked much about religion but he went to Mass every Sunday, the 6:30 Mass where few people would be and he wouldn’t have to deal with friends and neighbors. His contrib...