It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

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,

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five

Years ago my wife bought three wall clocks, atomic clocks they’re called. They require no batteries and you don’t plug them in.

Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney

As the snow swirls around them, an old man in a wheelchair uses sign language to tell another old man standing at the bus stop, “Friend,