Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
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...
I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours