When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
Each morning I step from the train and march with the others leaving the station. The weatherman’s warned of rain
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
The problem is, Priscilla grew up in a penthouse having parties whil… Biff came of age under a bridge fighting other trolls, he remember… When Pris calls his office and sa…
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...
