That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
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.
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
