Author: Kevin J. O'Conner

Here we are… Helpless animals held aloft unable to swim unable to sink Air thick with tears helpless animals held aloft Night time voices raised, breaths held air thick with tears Eyes dart back and forth night time voices raised, breaths held The stink the sting eyes dart back and forth The cloud envelops and [...]

Mixed feelings… 1 It’s horrible but I feel a slight sense of relief to be thinking about something that isn’t the virus There’s trouble coming in through the lens disbelief— no one’s thinking about protection against a virus 2 The things we’re seeing are the things we’ve seen before They’re playing the same parts doing [...]

It’s a state of mind… 1 Sometimes it feels like hunger Sometimes it feels like disease Neither sneaks up on me I ease into them deliberately but without deliberation 2 The human form is ripe for exploitation Within Without Fitted in between impulses controlled by the oldest one of all 3 No flash required 4 [...]

Guess what movie I’ve been watching… Barbra Streisand keeps calling Ryan O’Neal “Steve” but it’s endearing, not irritating and the 3o-year-old Barbra is good at comedy with a lightness and soft edges that didn’t survive the curly perm that clung to her for years after it first showed up in A Star Is Born (She’s [...]