“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

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

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…