In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

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

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn