Donal Mahoney- A Poem

 

Slovak Widow On 59th Street

She’s 84 

and when she stands,

everyone can hear the chiropractic crack

of eon bones

and everyone still tries hard

not to look   

that half second when

the chamois’s taut 

across protractor features.

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Donal Mahoney, an immigrant from Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. He has had poems published in Dead Snakes and other publications in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.