I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out