{"id":1191,"date":"2012-03-15T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T01:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2014-06-24T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T06:16:13","slug":"chino-and-chambray-by-donal-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/chino-and-chambray-by-donal-mahoney\/","title":{"rendered":"Chino and Chambray by Donal Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chino and Chambray<\/h1>\n

by Donal Mahoney<\/p>\n

Forty years older than I,
\nCharles, in his tweed cap, stands starched
\nin gray chino and blue chambray.<\/p>\n

For more than a year his broad tie
\nhas let the same iridescent duck
\nfly against a vermillion sky.<\/p>\n

Like a Vatican Guard
\nhe oversees the parking lot
\nI cut through each morning<\/p>\n

far corner to far corner
\nas I cleave two triangles of cars
\nparked in my wake.<\/p>\n

I ask him one morning,
\nCharles, do you mind
\nwhen I cut through your lot<\/p>\n

Not at all, sir, says Charles
\nas he stares straight ahead
\nand starts the windmill<\/p>\n

of his good arm to lead
\nthe pearl Hummer
\nnow pulling in.<\/p>\n

###<\/p>\n

Donal Mahoney has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He has had poems published in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Commonweal, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chino and Chambray by Donal Mahoney Forty years older than I, Charles, in his tweed cap, stands starched in gray chino and blue chambray. For more than a year his broad tie has let the same iridescent duck fly against a vermillion sky. Like a Vatican Guard he oversees the parking lot I cut through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t