It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Dive under any skirt that floats your way, Amish or otherwise, metaphorically speaking.
Some choose not to have children others maybe one or two three seems to be the max now it’s not like when Paul was young and a family might have had six or…
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
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...
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin
I tell you it’s not easy being a cat in Colorado especially on this farm where I stopped on my way to California.
Many years later when I meet her… on my way out of the Russian Tea… I notice how beautiful she is dini… a man more attentive than I was ba… But I see chaos dancing in her ey…
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand