Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
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...
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
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
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
We have a drop-off problem in Ame… We must decide which restroom one can use when nature beckons. So far, tumult reigns among the pe… If we declare both genders equal
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
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…
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street