Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
Old Sam in Room 322 at the nursing home asked the nurse to push his bed near the window because in October he likes to watch the l…
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.
After Wisconsin, we see a Trumpeter Swan swimming in circles Donal Mahoney
If smiles had echoes all the world would hear Grandma’s bouncing off the stars Donal Mahoney
A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother
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…