“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the state of innocence among young children by looking at a...
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
Sixty years ago, the two of us rode tricycles up a little hill behind our school. Nothing stopped us till
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
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
