A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

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

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

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

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

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

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

Since kindergarten Darius and Cla… have ridden the same bus to school from the city to way out in the su… They’re the only black kids in 8th… Their schoolmates have welcomed th…

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.

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