In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

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

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

You have to be married at least 30 years to know what your wife is thinking before she says it aloud. More than 40 years to know

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe