When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

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

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport