A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin
Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
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.