When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
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
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people