It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
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
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
Cardinals bicker and knock seed from the feeder. Doves parade below. Donal Mahoney
After the Inauguration, perhaps he will take his family on vacatio… Hawaii’s an oasis during the winte… But in time he’ll watch for someth… that will challenge his skill set.
Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.