Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…
What if your parents had never met had never married had never yelled at each other
Cookies for George, 40 years back from Viet Nam, are the only payment the man will accept to mow your lawn,
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
She’s not young, his wife. They’ve been together 40 years but when she gardens in her shorts and he’s lying in his hammock she’… a lovely sight to see so when she
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when