She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer

In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...

The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...