Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
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…
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.
Jesus, can we talk? Some folks say you’re coming back any day now but many of them have been saying that for years. They say it could happen tomorrow, or maybe next week, and they’ve al...
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in