Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three

All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.

In a life with many valleys and a few mountaintops Alvin has met many people he thought were normal and others he thought not.

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney