I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,
You have to have regulations in any industry, the hog farmer told the slaughter house CEO visiting his farm that day. Otherwise raising hogs
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
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars 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,
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
