On the table by the window balanced on its spine this leaflet butterfly open and still as a
Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney
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.
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
I love my wife and so I licked it lovingly at the very tip the ice cream cone she got me when I’d
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
The late Justice Scalia, a strict conservative on the Supreme Court, would have voted in favor of prayer
The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.