Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he