Donal Mahoney Poems

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia,
who excels at raising money to
put child abusers in prison.
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If America is lucky
it might still happen.
That lawsuit about the university
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You won't find poetry anywhere
unless you bring some of it with you,
said Joseph Joubert,
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You have to be married
at least 30 years to know
what your wife is thinking
before she says it aloud.
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Melanie is from a small town
and finds a job in a big city
and meets Bill, the man she wants to
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I don't know why my wife and I
are up at four in the morning
sitting in recliners drinking coffee
staring at half-hour commercials
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In a long marriage
couples communicate
in so many ways, often in silence.
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Long ago you said birth and death
were the bookends of life.
Nothing before. Nothing after.
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Porch light bright
all night keeps
thieves away but
not the moths that
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Old Tim drove 600 miles back home
to his shed in the woods
a month after burying his wife
up north in the city where they met
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