He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

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

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.