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
