I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...

Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

If they irritate you and so many do you don’t seek them out until you need them and when you’re through

In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...

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

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere