Short Draperies Poems

a candle lit room
scent of roses permeates~
                  draperies in flames 




October 7, 2022
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Her house was decorated in sea turtles.
They were crawling on the walls,
lying around in rugs,
decorating tea towels, draperies and pillows.
I guess you like sea turtles I said.
Not really.
But they are everywhere.
I know, she said.
All this stuff was my mother’s.
I inherited it all.
And you don’t like them?
Not really.
I had no more words to say....

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I always felt safe while
tangled in sheets till dawn
as I'd looked at your smile,
draperies tightly drawn.

Idyllic reveries
of fragmentary memories
painfully pierce my soul through;
melting away without you.



4/5/2019

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6.  Night of Memories...

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Hello, dear friend, it’s been a while
I hope to hear you’re doing well
How are you feeling, how’s the family?
Please chat with me and sit a spell.

The rooms of life have lost their sunshine
As age, like draperies, come to close
The sun still strong is trying hard now
To reach me here, before repose

So, speak dear friend, of the outside
Tell me of the sun’s warming grace
Let me know then, before I travel
By gazing at your smiling face...

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Bending, Grabbing, Sorting
 
	          Chinese Laundry
                  Chicago, 1970
 
In a storefront laundry
on North Clark Street
brown draperies release
this quiet man
 
who has my shirts.
He smiles and bows--
how carefully
he wraps them.
 
Before the draperies
fall back, I see,
for a moment,
in a circle swirling
 
almost out of sight
three kerchiefed women,
glistening black,
bending, grabbing, sorting.
 
Donal Mahoney...

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