Saturday, November 17, 2018

MICHAEL O'BRIEN ~



Five Poems



1

SUBWAY



clop clop of a

horse, no, a

coin rattled in a

paper cup





2

ZUKOFSKY



nothing

too small

to belong






3


BUSON'S HAIKU



footprints in the snow coming home, all the rest of last year forgotten




4  


EMPTY CATEGORY



e.g., the Russian

theologian who felt

compelled to believe

Hell existed, but,

such was God's

mercy, no one

was in it.





5


Harmonica's two-

note wheeze, a

boy riding his father's

shoulders down 20th St.





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Michael O' Brien

To the River

Flood Editions
2017