So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on

You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

Technology is wonderful, especially in medicine, Elmo told Opal, the day their son Brett called to tell them the good news. The doctor had told Brett and Debbie their first child would ...

Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

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

Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

Jill’s assignment as a new reporter was to interview an old bell ringer standing next to a red kettle outside a Walmart. Her editor had told her the man has been ringing the bell every ...