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  November 2023     1 month ago

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Death, or something like it

DEATH, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT

I left the light on in the kitchen
while I dozed in my chair….
Now that power is gone, wasted,
uncorrectable error.

A hummingbird’s trapped in my garage,
though I’ve lifted the door….
Frantic, it knows no way...

– by M. O'Donnell

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SEEKING HEAVEN

SEEKING HEAVEN

In this land that’s never dark,
my poor telescope searches
the moon swimming in a haze,
unsteady, stumbling as if drunk.

The fireflies appear as stars
amid the cattails and milkweed,
here now… gone now… there now,
High…...

– by M. O'Donnell

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YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT

YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT

I offer you this proposition,
That if you call me, I will listen.
Tin can and string, waxed, stretched out taut,
or by copper wire; what God hath wrought!
Cell phone radiation through the air
To startle me napping in...

– by Michael O'Donnell

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Canna lilies in fall

CANNA LILIES IN FALL

Canna lilies, trimmed to stalks,
stand like the royal guard,
arrayed in terra cotta urns,
silent, each one at attention.

In October’s angled light,
we upend the pots, spilling
tubers, roots, tangled in soil,
...

– by Michael O’Donnell

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Good use of metaphor

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A simple metaphor carried out well.

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