When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,

Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years

With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

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

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney