Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
