It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

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...

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

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.

Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed

I know this story to be true because I know Ruben and he wouldn’t lie even though Ruben and I have never met. He lives in Alabama in a hollow and I live in St. Louis. But that makes no ...

An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level

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

The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a