Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

A minister’s son married a deacon’s daughter after a long courtship. It was difficult at times doing everything right

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up

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

In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

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

If you write with a quill, ballpoint pen or typewriter, you’re a lucky soul. But if you use a computer and write far better than