It wasn’t long after her mother died my wife asked if her father could live with us. We had an empty apartment upstairs. Dad wouldn’t be much trouble, she said. He was old now and had d...

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

Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know

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

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...

When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why