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Joseph McDonough

Joseph McDonough is a stockbroker who lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Having worked in the World Trade Center prior to 9-11, he began writing as a way to disconnect from this monumental tragedy. He soon began writing poetry of "witness," as a way to memorialize victims of terrorism and holocausts. He has been published in several literary journals, most recently The Penwood Review, and was featured poet in the January 2007 issues of Poetry Life and Times (England) and Stylus Poetry Journal (Australia).



Weighing In Tiananmen

There are certain
physical laws
governing mass
and motion. Yet,
right from the start
we see things
that are hard
to measure.

Take heart:
the wholly
incalculable
notion,

a grain of sand
versus
an ocean

To Tank Man, wherever you are ...





Children of The Holocaust

The perfectly white
cat
sits upon
the lush green lawn

they run     they run
through fields
of sun
calling     calling its name

Ashes     Ashes
falling
like rain



News From Darfur

so much depends
upon

a red cross
truck

glistening with sun
shine

beside the white
man

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