When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

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…

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney

I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.

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…