Donal Mahoney Poems

The old couple sits in recliners
after dinner the way old couples do
and she tells him what she saw
in the yard that first warm day
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Ed's wife found a sinkhole
in the yard a year ago
a foot wide, several feet deep
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When I was a child we always went to church but only once a year as a family.

My father would rise every Sunday and attend the 6: 30 Mass, then come home and read his Sunday paper, every word of it, section by section, saving the obituaries for last.
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We’ve been married 40 years
and we eat dinner together
every night, Maisie,
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I understand
the next spaceship
goes to Mars.
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I've fed Old Tom for many years
with never any thanks,
not one meow.
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When a bullet goes in
and doesn’t come out
you read about it
in the paper, hear
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Another letter may come today
from the same editor at Poetry Paradise
telling me he'll pass on the poems
I sent a year ago because
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When you sit in this chair all day
and look out the window for years,
the garden is calendar and clock
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Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 'a wonderful man when he was awake' but for years he had been jerking 'something terrible' during his sleep and had kept waking her up. He'd swing his arms, she said, like those martial arts men he liked to watch on television. When the bouts were over, he'd give her a big kiss on the forehead and go to bed.

'Oh, he was just a doll, ' she said, 'when he was awake.'
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