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Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
He’s supposed to be a feral cat and I’d never tell him otherwise but when my wife goes shopping he waits hours for her patiently on his haunches
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
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
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
So many of us feed the birds even though we know birds can make it on their own in any weather,