Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when the two o...
The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
You would think you would love a man who died for you and for everyone else, even those who will never know that he did.
If you’re a reprobate in recovery you have to be careful what you do… You’re no different than an alcoho… always in danger of falling again. At least an alcoholic has a diseas…
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
