Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

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

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers

Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....