Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
Some say when daffodils shoot up Spring is here. It’s safe to put away your boots and shovels.
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
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
She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop