Donal Mahoney Poems

After the poetry reading
the lights go on and a lady
under a big hat rises
behind dark sunglasses
...

Millie remained on the farm
in the valley after Ollie died.
Their children moved on
getting jobs in town.
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Her corded belt
python tight around

a tiny waist makes
...

It is not the position,
not the money,
not the opportunity.
It is breakfast
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The Germans made certain history
would know what they did when
they stacked the Jews in camps
before putting them in gas chambers.
...

Two robins hopped
across the lawn

at dawn, one
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We are to each other now
many decades later
what we were the day
...

In St. Louis young blacks
carry guns like cell phones
and use them often
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The last hummingbird
arrives at the feeder

all aflutter
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You’re not normal.
You never were.
Even in kindergarten
the nun had to call
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