Donal Mahoney Poems

Harley turned 70
the other day
and died
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Many years later when I meet her again
on my way out of the Russian Tea Room
I notice how beautiful she is dining with him,
a man more attentive than I was back then.
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Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.

'I'm going upstairs, ' Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out of his old recliner, 'and if I don't ever come back down it's because you want to fly to Rome before we die so we can meet Pope Francis. Fat chance of that happening! You think the pope takes walks in St. Peter's Square? '
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The Nazis call her Hilda,
this ancient woman who
makes a simple living in
a bathroom in Berlin
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A minister's son married
a deacon's daughter
after a long courtship.
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'If you don't like the gun, my dear,
I can exchange it for a negligee but
I've given you many negligees.
I think a gun's important
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To have him see me
see his face, tree roots
ripping through the clay,
branches out, supplicating,
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Driving to work
shortly after dawn
I saw a possum
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Niagara Falls
her silver hair

so long it
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Bill lost his mind the other day.
No idea where he left it.
He asked his wife who said
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