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Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Tim Murnane was born to parents who lived in a small brick bungalow in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Chicago. His father worked as an electrician for Commonwealth Edison Company ...
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
Where will the lovely lady go on her diurnal walk? One child in 30 years she bore, now they do not talk. Supple, firm, her lithe legs are,
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
