When the dogwoods bloom pink and white blossoms create canopies of joy. Donal Mahoney
Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make
Two grackles, black birds shiny and iridescent, nest again this year high and deep in our tall spruce.
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
You’re an old man in a nice suit and tie out with your wife at a fancy function with nice people
Many decades ago when I was a kid we always expected rain at 3 p.m. on Good Friday said to be the hour
It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
I don’t know why my wife and I are up at four in the morning sitting in recliners drinking coff… staring at half-hour commercials claiming to cure everything
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
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
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.