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Your father’s faults

We were sixteen when they evacuated the gymnasium in the middle of the English exam (anonymous bomb threat, year after Columbine). I was writing on Roethke – not the poem we’d read in class and most everyone agreed told the … Read More

by Maggie Dillon on May 11, 2006March 17, 2013

In Your Absence, the Magnolia Outside My Window

A week ago, their buds held tight:
points poked from shells…

by Maggie Dillon on December 1, 2004March 17, 2013

Ribe, Morning After Rain

Paths puddled with still water,
grass shellacked, peristaltic
stretch of slugs to inch along…

by Maggie Dillon on December 1, 2004March 17, 2013

Poems

Slug Polaroid ?I.?On a walk through Killarney, I dodge wet loaves.?They would soon stick to sole:?husky bits of polka-dotted licorice,?black pudding gnocchi.??II.?I imagine plasmodial slime mold and black bear cubs?would spawn something like this glossy lump.??III.?At a house near Volx, … Read More

by Maggie Dillon on September 15, 2004March 17, 2013

A Poem

I. The Commemoration of St. Malachy falls on November 3, so as not to conflict with the feast of All Souls. A prophet, Malachy extirpated barbarism from the Church. II. St. Malachy was named Abbot of Bangor in 1123. “That’s … Read More

by Maggie Dillon on March 24, 2004March 17, 2013

July 11, 2003: Ballymacash Burning

The night is an exercise in harmony, a lesson in primary colors: Billy, ten, clutches a bottle of WKD blue, rubs his fast-ruddying face. When he lifts his arm for posterity, the salute calls the flame to crawl down the … Read More

by Maggie Dillon on February 18, 2004March 17, 2013

No Refunds after Fifteen Minutes

I. Barrage of right-handed hooks: Jesus Christ is Lord over Greater Orlando paints diamond fence; tee-shirt on man with bulge reads God is Good; top of tower, a neon cross – God is Love intersects Christ is Savior at the … Read More

by Maggie Dillon on February 18, 2004March 17, 2013


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