In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth

I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...

Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…