He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.

The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps