Donal Mahoney- A Poem

The Ferguson Apocalypse 

Missouri, U.S.A. 2014

From shimmering oil

of ebony still

will come flailing of limbs

will come hacking

quick slashing

of hands now untied

tattooing no pattern

not even a maze

depriving gray walls

of their stone

will come spittle

wild churning rivers

agush from slack jaws

of blanching gray hounds

till one day at dawn 

will come quiet

Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.