He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

I came back to You late and still don’t understand why the Father asked You to die for me and everyone else. I learned the Ten Commandments

It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

I never think about bison. After all, I live in St. Louis, why should I? But when I went hunting for quail in Montana

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

The story goes Pa met Ma in the city when he drove a truckload of pigs to market. She was the young waitress who served him cup after cup of coffee and gave him three eggs instead of ju...

If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…

Many years ago Miriam’s parents took the kids for the weekend while she and Jack motored north to fish for trout in Montana at Miriam’s request.

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney

Three sisters single in their 40s gather 'round the fire on a night of thunder to figure out which sister

We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney