Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add
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
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
Bill would come every Sunday to his mother’s house after a tough divorce. He’d bring his laundry for his mother to do and then he’d devour the roast beef dinner she always made for him....
Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…
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,
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
