So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,
I met a proper woman in a proper p… on a Monday in Peoria. I was take… she looked like Jackie after Dall… but without the pillbox hat. She was from New York and I was…
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. 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…
Christmas is now the Holidays. But Hanukkah is still Hanukkah and Ramadan is still Ramadan. Easter still has its name. The media needs more time
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
Although it snowed a little Wedne… Jane’s hyacinths are blooming. And in the yard she saw this morni… 50 robins hopping in the sun. Some flew in couples into trees
It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing
We hung suet out on the deck today hoping the wrens would come and stay the winter,
Rhoda, I can’t say why Amanda was picked and not Tiffany for anchor of our Nightly News. I interviewed both because Mr. Smith wanted
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts