Dorothy Mahoney
centenarian
In the small-town hardware store, beside the onion sets and seed packets
is a rack of greeting cards, each priced at a dollar. Under birthday is one for
100 years. Only one.
re-lighting candles
with black wicks
all the old wishes
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.