Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

Blooming for one day a lily welcomes the sun. Bumblebees drop in. Donal Mahoney

Yes, fifty years ago today it happened. Quite a story. He was your favorite uncle and he liked you a lot too. You were all torn up.

Despite the digital holocaust of computers and cell phones, Newberry Library remains the Vatican of books with the right sounds,

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

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day

All that hair trapped in a braid silver to the waist Opal this morning nude in the mirror

A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my

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

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear

Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little