Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak when he saw his gifts under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting

As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock

Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney