Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
Forty years Leroy was a doorman at a nice hotel in a big city. He was a country boy the day he got the job because he was tall and the uniform fit, the manager s…
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
The day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
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…
Millicent was the daughter who danced ballet and sang until she met Butchie on a rainy day. He was in coveralls and cowboy hat and fixed