Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
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
For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
