The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

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

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along