I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let’s call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbo...

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

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

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

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,