The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
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
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
I will no longer feed the birds on the front porch as I do daily autumn through winter when I go out at dawn to get the paper on the lawn and spread seed on
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Sam’s collected knives for 50 year… and has 200, maybe more, relics from the Civil War and before. Someone gave him his first knife when he was 30 as a gift but
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
