Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed
Never speak ill of the dead, his father always said, and his father was a pastor who preached from the pulpit. That’s why whenever
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
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…
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
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.