Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by

Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,

Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,

There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

Been in trouble all my life childhood through old age. I took the alleys

We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...

Some day soon Wall Street giants will walk on their hands never sit or sleep. They will eat

Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,

Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar