Contributor: Donal Mahoney
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this belle like a feather
floats table to table
bearing menus and water,
stunning this Yankee
in Memphis on business
whose host swears the South
has many more like her.
Up North, the Yank says,
young ladies like her bump tables,
slop coffee in saucers.
No wonder this Yankee
in Memphis on business
smiles when again
this belle like a feather
floats table to table
bearing menus and water
as if she were certain
the earth isn’t there
and the sky and the air
are highway enough for a belle
bearing menus and water.
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Donal Mahoney lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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