Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.

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

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep