He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

Jack, age 6, loves the iPad he uses in kindergarten. He already navigates the net to some degree. But when he accompanied his father to the Post Office, he sat quietly on a bench and re...

Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me

One, a nun, has her transfer in her hand. She’s silently praying. Another, a hooker, has her income in her purse.

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney