I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat

Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

It is said brave folks who understand this new world understand demons. Donal Mahoney

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

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.

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

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

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...