From the Train Going Home by Donal Mahoney

As we roar over and by

the oaks are as still

as the pond they surround

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Only the swans

on the pond

are moving

*

Then from an oak

a buckshot of crow

cawing and leaving

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Donal Mahoney has had poems published in a variety of print and online publications, including The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal,Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey) and A Golden Place. A native of Chicago, he lives now in St. Louis, Missouri, where he discovered, much to his doctor’s distress, biscuits and gravy.

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Editor’s Note: Please remember to pray for Bennett.