Donal Mahoney Poems

To lie in bed
this morning of a snow
when neither of us
has to go
...

We retired on the same day,
several years ago, my wife and I.
We sat around the house
drinking espresso coffee
...

If I met the same women now
I probably wouldn't know them.
They're missing teeth, I bet,
and have gray Medusa hair.
...

A new coiffure would help.
Your hair should flounce
when you walk.

Spiff up your wardrobe.
...

Every month or so
on a Sunday afternoon
I skip the football game
and get in my truck
...

If I were a possum
with a tail that long
I too would hang
from a tree limb
...

Take it from me
sitting on the edge of this star
in the universe with
meteors zipping around me.
...

Nothing is anywhere anymore,
Dad shouts over the phone.
His reveille again at 4 a.m.
Will I come over and find it?
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When he walks behind her
so many years his wife

up the staircase laughing
...

The next morning the lady says
take me out for breakfast
someplace I have never been
someplace I will never see again
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