Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Almost toothless now, old Romeo puts his Bible down, relaxes in his rocker, pours brandy in his snifter and scribbles in his ledger
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
