Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright

Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

One has to be careful campaigning door-to-door. One doesn’t know who’s behind any door. Could be someone

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney