Dorothy Mahoney

Dropping Names

My friend tells me her father went on a tour of the Titanic in the Belfast shipyard when he was five. Well, one of my father’s bricklayers was Joe DiMaggio’s cousin and he went to Marilyn Monroe’s wedding. My brother-in-law went to Woodstock and my sister-in-law saw the Beatles perform in Detroit when she was sixteen. I am six when the Beatles first perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. For weeks after my father bops through the house singing, “Yeah, yeah, yeah…”

telegram from the King:
"tremendous success"
Harrison: "Elvis who?"

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About the Author

Dorothy Mahoney is the author of several poetry books. Her book Ceaseless Rain (Palimpsest Press, 2020) includes haibun about hospice care, and The Inevitable (Red Moon Press, 2022) is an experimental novel consisting of 51 haibun and a flash story.

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