At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

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

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, ...

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

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...

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

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

We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.