To have him see me
see his face, tree roots
ripping through the clay,
branches out, supplicating,
I can’t take.
Better that I wait.
Better that he one day have
one last chance to feel
his one son’s son
tug a block beside him.
Istanbul Literary Review - May 2010 Edition (#17)
Donal Mahoney
USA
Donal Mahoney, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A. 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, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Public Republic (Bulgaria), Gloom Cupboard (U.K.), Revival (Ireland), Poetry Super Highway, Pirene's Fountain (Australia) and other publications.
