When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.

You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills

We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

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