A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
It was nearly midnight and I was driving home after a long day when I realized there was no cat food in the house and I would be facing the same trio of feral cats bright and early at t...
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Mrs. Ryan keeps her cat inside at… but lets it out at dawn to go anyw… while she’s at work. Every day the… crosses the road to call on the Wi… Mrs. Ryan doesn’t know her cat ca…
