Michael O'Brien


Four Poems


obsessed w/ rhode island

                               remembering a past life

the mathematician

                               a rose moving through embodiment

sits on a tea plantation

                               and metaphor


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sdc 101

autumn sky
the hydrangea
holds on

into a begging bowl the
cameras grey eye

no
stopping the crab apples
falling

through custard light
the last orchid


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anxiety

                               turning me

the car’s engine

                               reborn

becoming a clock

                               as a fox


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My feet diseased vegetables locked in the carbon monoxide bull whip of an Albionic night. Aoife and I went to try and buy cigarettes from the all night garage. Glass crushed. Bits of table here and there. A television finds itself. Late night potato salad crucifixion.

                through the emptiness
                of a smashed bottle
                yesterday




Michael O’Brien lives in Glasgow Scotland. He is the author of As Adam (UP Literature), Big Nothing (Bones) and The Anabasis of Man (Yavanika Press). You can follow him on twitter @michaelobrien22
 
 
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