Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...