The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,
Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees
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…
Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
An article in the paper reports something one doesn’t see happen in America very often. Eighty billionaires, millionaires and others close to that level
Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
