Shadows and ice damp houses riddled with lice. An open coffin a child's pneumonia gaze. Words from another age land on a page. Half light...

Five and Seven Fifty-Seven. Two becomes one. Twenty-one. Key of the door no more. Who remembers? Maggie's Den Number 10 "Get her out."...

Once upon a winter’s day before utter evening descended. Remembering clearest mornings spent enthralled intermeddled with a fine girl all...

All day just him and me pints and stories giddied up the craic. The afternoon ran away too soon. A fading straggle watched us unravel...

At the bedside in becalmed death light. A fight. Our lady barefoot. All of a flurry. A snow globe scene from Knock or Lourdes. Even now...

All things past are close as he starts another dose. Rain, wind, thunder, and fire. Of the old the young soon tire. Soon enough they'll...

Cheap and superficial phrases about the vulnerability of the world are invoked. The garrulous blather of men and women. Splendid...