Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
Bug no bigger than a comma scales the wall next to my recliner. He’s climbing
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
