He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife

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

Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register

It’s almost time for the Academy… Theaters are showing their best mo… and someone I know wants to go. I used to pay 15 cents to see Roy… in black and white cowboy up on Tr…

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

My parents were far from preachy. They went to church separately and I went to the children’s service

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed

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

Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.