I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
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
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes
The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
I’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth be to...
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
Let’s look at him from his point o… living as he does in a penthouse on top of a building bearing his n… riding an elevator down a few floo… to an office where he oversees
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
