Photo By Jonny Bean

    Whenever I mention you,
    the doctor always asks
    what do I see,

    now that you’re gone,
    when I think of you.
    I say I see thighs,

    tanned and gleaming,
    kissed by the proper
    Bonwit skirt, rising

    through the terminal
    toward me and above
    your thighs

    that smile,
    a Southern girl’s,
    uncoiling.

A Southern Girl's, Uncoiling
Donal Mahoney
The Honey Land Review
Spring 2009
Volume 1, Issue 2
DONAL MAHONEY has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times,
Loyola University Press, McDonnell Douglas Corp. (now the Boeing Corp.) 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,
Orbis
(England), Commonwealth, The Christian Science Monitor, Revival
(Ireland), The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The
Davidson Miscellany, Public Republic
(Bulgaria) and other publications.