Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

He often got bored with her hobby… but this weekend he looks forward… hours of cooking shows on televisi… while he talks with her about her… He finally accepts that she is dyi…

Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain

They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open