twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
Old Tim drove 600 miles back home to his shed in the woods a month after burying his wife up north in the city where they me… more than 60 years ago.
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Some never hear of him and likely never will— pygmies in Africa, aborigines in Tasmania, the indigenous in South America.
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look