twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
River rafting in Montana is a fine way to spend your vacation but it’s not the same as river rafting in Zimbabwe.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
After he died on a tree, he rose and told the twelve before he ascended he would return some day. The twelve told others and they
In a long marriage couples communicate in so many ways, often in silence. In recent years I rise very early and now leave post-it notes
Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
