I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude

This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even