A bright winter day and not a leaf left on this skeleton tree teeming with sparrows
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
They never held hands when they were a couple young and newly married as much in love as they were planning a wonderful life.
The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
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...
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
