I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.

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

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

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

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days