Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
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…
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,