After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...