After the doctor tells Ahmad his test results, Ahmad says he needs a new place to live. His tent’s in ruins, Ahmad says. His body will soon shake a final t…

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant “Patsy Foley’s roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.” At first, no one could remember w...

This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then

Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.

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

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.