Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.

He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

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

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.

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

America had a choice November 8 between a devil they know and a devil they don’t. They chose

The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything

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

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right