It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
Young hummingbird swirls and darts to the red feeder. Black cat waits below. Donal Mahoney
Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
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
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails