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    Village Streets
    Village Streets
    Village Streets
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    Village Streets

    By Mary Ann McDonnell

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    Mary Ann McDonell's poetry offers humor and insight as it shares scenes of New York and shares her experience with aging and widowhood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZeugpress
    Release dateMar 6, 2015
    ISBN9781311590312
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      Village Streets - Mary Ann McDonnell

      To wonder and to still accept in faith

      Is faith as it is meant to be

      Village Streets

      These are the streets we walked along

      A long time ago.

      I walk them now alone.

      I look in shop windows we looked in then—

      Old George’s antiques.

      I see he sold a few pieces.

      Ah, but the Chinese console table

      With the patina of dust

      Is still just as it always was.

      I can still see your face so clearly darling—

      I don’t think I’ll ever walk down this street again.

      Like George’s Chinese table

      I find

      Some memories are best left, undisturbed,

      Covered gently with dust.

      Some Things Old Men Do, Day In And Day Out

      Very early in the morning

      They rise

      Tread familiar steps

      To the bathroom

      Perform their ablutions

      Then

      Put on the coffee pot

      Spread generic jam

      On generic bread

      Reread last night’s newspapers

      Talk to the bird

      Feed the cat

      Take the dog out

      Exchange a few words

      With their young neighbors hurrying off to work

      Then

      Back to the house

      Water the plants

      Some of them (promised their wives they would

      The wives who died

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