In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

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

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Phil went to Memorial Park yester… on his crutches and saw new crosse… in the ground commemorating vetera… Must be a hundred more than last y… HIs brother’s cross is there, in…

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

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard

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

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers