If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

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

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

One by one young nurses crisp in their white caps bring the old folks out crumpled in their wheelchairs from this towering building

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving

Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust