Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for impro...
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.
We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.
I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
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
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat