In Memphis On Business
Jan 23rd, 2012 | By Donal Mahoney | Category: Poetry | 71 viewsthis belle like a feather
floats table to table
bearing menus and water,
stunning this Yankee
in Memphis on business
whose host swears the South
has many more like her.
Up North, the Yank says,
young ladies like her bump tables,
slop coffee in saucers.
No wonder this Yankee
in Memphis on business
smiles when again
this belle like a feather
floats table to table
bearing menus and water
as if she were certain
the earth isn’t there
and the sky and the air
are highway enough for a belle
bearing menus and water.
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About Donal Mahoney: Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, MO. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Gloom Cupboard (U.K.), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Poetry Friends, Poetry Super Highway, Pirene's Fountain (Australia) and other publications. |
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