An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

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

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

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

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney