If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

Some folks have a problem with aut… legitimate and otherwise, and I ha… a lifetime festering in that group… An event in youth convinced me tha… big people are no different than l…

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

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

A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equal...

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.