A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney

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.

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

Let’s not worry about it, Dearie, life gets better, life gets worse. We’re no different than the seasons of the year except we’re luckier than most having

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls

He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house

They’ve been here for years two blue jays who live in our yard year round. In winter they’re silent at the feeder but screeching

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allow...

We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.

The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by