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Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney

Grandma Ella

She was about the doing
not about applause
 
canning tomatoes in summer
baking pies in fall
quilting winter away
 
using watercolors
to paint robins in spring
hopping across the lawn
 
listening for dinner
in the softening ground.
 
 
Donal Mahoney

Autres oeuvres par Donal Mahoney...
Everybody’s Friend

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
Recycle Them

We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
A Traffic Stop Where No One Was Shot

An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
Cobra’s Wife

She’s a snake charmer but doesn’t know it. That’s why the cobra married her and has lived so many years in its basket.
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Beowulf and Dr. Englehardt

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
Little Cartons, Little Sacks

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
By Mistake He Later Said

Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
A Farmer Goes to the Big City

Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
 2
A Tale of a Family Tree

They buried Colleen Garrity today a woman 95 few people thought would ever die and what a lovely eulogy her cousin Paddy gave. Paddy must be 80 if a day yet he
You Can’t Make This Up

Police arrested a man on suspicion of child abuse after doctors found a small octopus in the throat of his girlfriend’s two-year-old s…
 1
Looking for a Piece

Even though we’re getting older even rickety in some respects my wife and I remain involved in the joys of life.
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First Waitress

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
A Great Time for a Climb

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.
A Teaching Moment for Little Nora

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…
A Garage Band Sayonara

Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.



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