Thursday, March 7, 2013

Summer Ablutions by Donal Mahoney

Image - www.thisoldyard.net


Stunned by July in a hammock
he remembers the apricot wife 
no longer here
one curler more and the flutter
of leaves in the orchard
the sound of trees 
letting go
a downpour of plums
flowing over
the wicker
propped open 
below

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