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donal mahoney
Donal Mahoney has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times, Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. One of many Pushcart Prize nominees, he has had poems published in The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic, Revival, The Istanbul Literary Review, Heavy Bear, Minus 9 Squared, Pirene's Fountain, and other publications. For anyone interested in popping the hood and seeing what makes Donal tick, he was kind enough to share this discussion of his creative process in addition to the whimsical and well crafted poem below, "My Therapist's a Lady." |
my therapist's a lady
It’s all so simple now, yet it took 30 years to begin to understand. It’s as though someone stole the primer I had and gave me another in my own language. It’s because you are who you are that I’ve begun to become who I am. That sounds too dramatic. All you did, really, was scream when you opened the bathroom door, saw me wrapped in a towel, standing at attention on a mat, waiting in my thirtieth year for the steam to clear from the cabinet mirror, waiting for someone to shout, “At ease.” |
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