Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
My grandson whispers the morning dew sparkles like diamonds in the grass. Donal Mahoney
Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Deep into a warm winter the Japanese red maple keeps her crown of brilliant leaves as if to prove to the evergreens especially that big blue spruce
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
