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.
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A Southern Girl's, Uncoiling Donal Mahoney
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The Honey Land Review Spring 2009 Volume 1, Issue 2
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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.