Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh

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

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

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

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

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

I have to hope America can trust and welcome them especially parents hiding children

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

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

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

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