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'Apple Fritter and a Single Rose' by Donal Mahoney

3/17/2017

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​Apple Fritter and a Single Rose
 
After 30 years together,
Carol tells me late one evening
in the manner of a quiet wife
that I have yet to write a poem
 
about her, something she
will never understand in light
of all those other poems
she says I wrote
 
about those other women
before she drove North.
And so I tell her once again
I wrote those other poems
 
about no women I ever knew
the way I now know her
even if I saw them once or twice
for dinner, maybe,
 
and a little vodka
over lime and ice.
Near midnight, though,
she says again
 
in the manner of a quiet wife
it's been thirty years
and still no poem.
When morning comes
 
I motor off to town to buy
a paper and a poem
for Carol
but find instead
 
undulating in a big glass case
an apple fritter,
tanned and glistening,
lying there just waiting.
 
So I buy the lovely fritter
and a single long-stem rose
orphaned near the register,
roaring red, and still
 
at full attention.
I bring them home but find
Carol still asleep
and so I put the fritter
 
on the breadboard
and the rose right next to it,
at the proper angle.
When she wakes I hope
 
the fritter and the rose
will buy me time until
somewhere in the attic
of my mind I find
 
a poem that says
more about us than
this apple fritter,
tanned and glistening,
 
lying there just waiting,
and a single long-stem rose,
roaring red, and still
at full attention.
 
 
Donal Mahoney
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