Donel Mahoney has had poems published in a variety of publications, including The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Public Republic (Bulgaria), Asphodel Madness (R.I.P.), Black-Listed Magazine and The Camroc Press Review. He has never forgotten how to spell ukulele.
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Two Poems (May-ish, 2011. Issue 28.)
Spider
Warm, wet, wrapped
in each other's
arms, legs,
still for a moment,
we rest,
a spider spent,
trapped in its web.
Honeymoon in the Garden Apartment
Lacking in the expertise of those
accustomed to the practice
my wife and I completed
for the first time
what we later would perfect.
Afterward, my wife arose,
excused herself, and padded
through three rooms.
Through three rooms,
as I lay back,
I could hear the porcelain
singing to her urine.
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Two Poems (February 20, 2011. Issue 25.)
The Wife
On the way home from work
I buy the last honeydew
in the window at Meyers.
Tonight the wife
will cut it in half
and with elbow bent
scoop the pulp
like ice cream
from its golden shell.
She will savor its juices
as I do the cherries
on the sundaes of her breasts.
Dawn Tomorrow
Another letter may come today
from the same editor at Poetry Paradise
telling me he'll pass on the poems
I sent a year ago because
they aren’t a good fit for his pages.
But this time, he says, he'll give my poems
to his brother, the skywriter,
who will emblazon them in snow
against a sky so blue
millions of people will love them
almost as much as I do.
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