Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he

Decades ago a small college out in the boondocks put Ambrose, a freshman, on a Greyhound Bus to attend a student convention in New York.

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

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

Around his navel this morning a halo, a red stipple Hopkins would love: “Glory be to God for dappled thin… It’s a gift from this woman

Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to

It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers

Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...

Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.

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