Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
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,
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
Paul’s in his backyard on a Sunday afternoon barbecuing burgers. His wife and kids are hungry in the house.
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
That my parents were Irish immigrants is probably the most significant factor in my writing life. The English expelled my father from Ireland around 1920 at age 18 or so for running gun...
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
