Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
The old priest who won’t retire despite his bishop’s hints rides his bike around the parish every day for exercise. He waves and smiles at everyone
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past
