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

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.

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

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

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she

Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement

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

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…