how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
Jack’s a widower. His wife died years ago so every year he takes a plane and helps his mother decorate his childhood home for Christmas.
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
We are to each other now many decades later what we were the day we got married, a couple at the kitchen table on
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
Otis was once a monk who took no vows, was free to leave the abbey and eventually he did. I met him over chicken wings
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…