Tag: donal

The Widow Next Door   Every Saturday  when the sun is out and it’s hotter than Hades   Monica next door  raises her garage door early in the morning    and leaves it up  long past noon as if  Herm will walk out   at any minute  oily and greasy needing to clean up     the way he used to  every Saturday […]

Daily Paper on the Lawn   An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar tired from playing but willing to play a last set for me not knowing I read only sports and the obits two riffs in the paper anyone can believe Author Bio: Donal Mahoney lives […]

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store, at the post office. They can’t find their money, if they have any. They’re never in a hurry. They have nowhere to go and you’re always in line behind them, a busy man with people to see, appointments to keep, deadlines to meet. You try to […]

Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up till bedtime where snoring was music in the night. His grandson told neighbors Gramps had Old-Timer’s Disease, an excellent diagnosis with which doctors agreed. It was time to move Gramps to a home so his wife began […]

Carousel of Marriage Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score  or so the neighbors thought as they counted kids running across their lawns causing divots to fly and  dogs to bark, a canine  tabernacle choir.   Fireworks on the Fourth were peaceful in comparison. The kids would light their  crackers in the yard while  Harry and […]

A Stationary Bicycle The doctor tells Phil and his wife he’s in pretty good health for a man his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain his faith in recliner therapy. He sits in a recliner for hours, watches TV or reads the paper and wiggles his toes at least three […]

Old Stag Giddy   Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees   but sometimes Martha  after her shower  is a doe beckoning     and he becomes giddy  and heads for the salt lick happy in the breeze

Big Bang for Little Billy   This was the first Christmas Billy was old enough to speak  when he saw his gifts  under the sparkling tree. His parents were waiting to hear what he’d say. Billy laughed and jumped and clapped his hands.  With a big smile, he shouted “Santa brought me these!”  Then Daddy picked Billy up, bounced him on his knee  and whispered […]