Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
They’ll be coming for us, the old lady told the young man next to her, the two of them sitting on stones under the bridge surrounded by trolls
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
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.
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
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
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...
