Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
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
We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused