Daddy laughed and said Smart Snake
and Mrs Kelly with us scowled.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: alternate versions, Elizabeth, history, Michael Ondaatje, unsettling
Daddy laughed and said Smart Snake
and Mrs Kelly with us scowled.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: alternate versions, Elizabeth, history, Michael Ondaatje, unsettling
And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Cecilia Woloch, confession, dark humor, defiance, gender, imagery, poetry
Anyone born anywhere near
my home town says it this way,
with an s on the end:
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: culture, homesickness, identity, repetend, Suzanne Cleary