They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Autumn and the leaves, crisp in the swirling air, are pheasant wings once more Donal Mahoney

My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. No...

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go