It’s a simple procedure I’ve done for years many times a day. You’ll go home this afternoon, take it easy over the weekend,

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.