Sunday, June 12, 2016

Donal Mahoney- A Poem


High Summer in the Country

Far from the city
way out in the country 
a hot afternoon in high summer

as we drive down a bumpy road 
bouncing one mail box past
another saluting

each farmer by name.  
We marvel at the giant corn 
until we come to a mail box

bent over an old table
piled high with tomatoes, 
green beans and melons.

A tin can slumps in front 
of this harvest with a note  
gripped by a clothes pin 

saying, “Take what you will 
and leave what you will. 
God blessed us this year.”


Donal Mahoney

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Something like this is what makes the author,
an urban denizen, wish he had been raised
and lived in the country. 


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