Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Tuesday poem #655 : Brendan H. O’Connor : CONFESSIONAL POEM #5

 

 

only circumambulate

only clockwise

a rainbow road

pollen smeared

two crystal pillars 

unabated savagery

mundane reparations 

& a false tendency

have a word 

with the ferryman

implausible tradewinds

sulfuric droplets

just an average divorce

among the Ainu

why’s Mac Wiseman

here of all places

born to an ice giant

renounce resentment

a fox corpse trying

to be a fox again

yes it means I’m sorry 

emergent properties

a phase transition

holding our carbon

in escrow

 

 

 

Brendan H. O’Connor is a linguist, anthropologist, and poet. Originally from upstate New York, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. New poems are forthcoming in Cactus Wren Review. Older work appeared in 32 Poems, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, and Mudfish. He is a former Lannan Poetry Fellow at Georgetown University.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan


 

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