Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
Not a leaf left on the crabapple t… instead little red apples hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree… Little red apples that spend most of the winter covered with sn…
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
That’s a very big tree and a boy scout could climb it with all the right gear. But it’s a condominium, too. You would disturb families.
Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
They got along fine lying down but sitting up or standing, well that was quite another thing. Talking made things worse. Lying down they found
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
