Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…

On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

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

They weren’t talking at all, back… Deep in that house, conceiving the… they weren’t talking at all, back… And they’re not talking at all, ri… Still in that house, rearing their…

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Natural Family Planning has its ups and downs so to speak but it often works quite well. But when the calendar

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,