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Colleen O'Brien

Colleen O'Brien
Colleen O'Brien's poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Antioch Review, West Branch, North American Review, Fugue, Poetry Northwest, and other publications. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Saturn

By Colleen O'Brien
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

Red throat, expel today the substitute: the stone. The boy is back from underground today. The boy has grown. The undigested breach in yellow glory from my mouth. Then blast me nine days’ anvil flight away from wide- wayed earth.

Bridge

By Colleen O'Brien
Poetry•Vol. XXVII No. 3 (Winter 2014)

– after Joseph Stella This bridge—I came here painfully young. What did I do at a blue stoplight? I wished for that light to mean I was asleep. To know I slept and marvel at that least illumination.           Cathedral window bridge; the frame backlit and black. All that apparatus—necessary— layered on the air.

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