When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

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

Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse

I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…

The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.

Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh