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.