Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

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

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...

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

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

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind

They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

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

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...