Donal Mahoney - One Poem

The Parish Carnival

 

That's Bernie's wife on the carousel

laughing and waving her arms.

Once again she won't get off 

even though Bernie is yelling

next to the concession stand

jumping around in his wheel chair.

He's finished his cotton candy

and wants to go home. 

He probably has to pee.

He never goes anywhere 

except to the parish carnival. 

He loves the cotton candy.

He says it's the same as when 

he was a kid years ago 

before he fell out of the tree. 

He needs Stella more than ever now

to push his wheel chair and she does

except when she comes to the carnival 

and gives old Bernie a big plume 

of cotton candy and hops on the carousel

laughing and waving her arms 

once a summer every year.

 

 

 

Nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, Donal Mahoney has had work published in various publications in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his earliest work can be found at http://booksonblog12.blogspot.com