Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop

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

Father the chameleon was lime gree… the first day I saw him peering in… my crib smiling and he remained lime green until kindergarten when a nun called the house and sa…

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...

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

If he were perfect he wouldn’t be Dan the Handyman, laying tile in crooked rows,

Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past