“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans. One day he and seven o...
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,