a haiku
She walks the rack of bright frock… as her husband, an Angus aging, paws at the carpet behind her. She wants the right dress to make verdant again the hills
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Jim Clowes had a red '53 Ford that looked terrible. The paint on the car was almost all gone, although there were still patches of paint mixed with patches of rust. The clunker was an u...
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
The older I get the more beautiful they are without exception Donal Mahoney
We see stories on the internet that are simply fake news, many of them malicious as well. It’s hard to tell the difference but a single sentence found
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
World War II was over but still fresh in the minds of folks who li… in Bill’s hometown in the Ozarks. Independence Day was important. It called for a celebration.
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