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Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney

A Symphony Lost

Harvey at 80
is losing his hearing.
He can’t hear his wife
 
when she talks,
a symphony lost.
But at dusk
 
in the garden
alone in a lawn chair
with a glass of iced tea
 
cubes circling
Harvey can hear
the whippoorwill ask
 
and the cricket reply
and that’s all the truth
that he needs.
 
Donal Mahoney

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