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From The Train Going Home by Donal Mahoney

September 26, 2011 by Every Writer

From The Train Going Home

by Donal Mahoney

As we roar over and by
the oaks are as still
as the pond they surround

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, a native of Chicago, lives in St. Louis, Missouri. His poems have appeared in print and online in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

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