Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
I never remember year to year but then some morning in March I’ll walk out in the yard
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
