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

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney

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

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Because he works in an office and… and because she who tans anyway ha… returned from a week at the Beach, the commuters are certain she’s no… yet they rustle in their seats.

Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

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