Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney
My mother always said my father was a little odd and she lived wit… all those years and should have kn… When we were small my sister and… knew he was different. No other fa…
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teache...
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
Planned Parenthood surgeons deplored the murder of Cecil the Lion. They wonder how a
Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.