It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside
When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…
I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening
One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.
The Downy is the smallest flicker but his arrival is uninvited and disturbs the hummingbirds circling in fury while he with bravado
Every day comes praise for Him everywhere in nature a cricket chirps a wren sings
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
