Donal Mahoney
Poems by Donal Mahoney : 21 / 161
Caseworker's Tune
Housing Project, Chicago
Where I am now
there are no leas, no
sheep feeding.
There are tenements,
children breeding.
Where I am now
there are no trees, no
wrens lighting.
There are halls far, dark,
an old man peeing.
Donal Mahoney
Submitted: Monday, May 28, 2012
Poems by Donal Mahoney : 21 / 161
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