He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget
I flew out to see a high school friend. from many years ago. He was poor back then and I was better off.
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…
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
