by Donal Mahoney
As if stunned by July in a hammock
I wait for my apricot wife
One curler more and the flutter
of leaves in the orchard
the sound of trees
letting go
a downpour
of plums still bouncing
around in the wicker
propped open below
© 2010 Donal Mahoney. All rights reserved.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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), Revival (
