Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
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…
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
I don’t know the answer but perhaps the Dalai Lama knows the final resting place of pygmies who live in jungles unexplored and never hear a sermon from
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
Tim’s mother told him that in 1926 she was a teen in Ireland who hid on a ship sailing to America. She had no papers when she ran awa… from her parents’ thatched-roof hu…
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over