Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
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
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...
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…