Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

Months roar by like weeks and weeks disappear like days, two coots in a bar admit on New Year’s Eve, reminiscing over a beer

Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

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.

A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Far from the city way out in the country a hot afternoon in high summer as we drive down a bumpy road bouncing one mail box past

They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...

A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney

On the road all week finally it’s Friday and he’s almost home so he calls his wife and says it will be