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...

It’s climate change, the professor says, that’s causing all the hurricanes and floods, wildfires and tornadoes,

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing

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

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

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