Michael Mackin O'Mara
  • Poems
    • a poem (Ars Poetica)
    • the boy who could fly
    • the conflagration
    • Dissertation
    • Dreams in Black & White
    • For the Dear One
    • Goya, The Third of May
    • Interrogation Survival Techniques circa 1988
    • In the South Pacific
    • In Your Global Warming Dream
    • The Irish Goodbye
    • The Lost Canoe
    • Marisol
    • Night Prayers to Guadalupe
    • On These Nights
    • Poem at the End of the World
    • The Scrutinies
    • The Smallest Color
  • GRAPHIC ARTS
    • Abstracts
    • Declining Nudes
    • Torso Study
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • Outback
    • Splintered
    • Walk About Colors
  • Contact
Published in
​The Door Is A Jar
on these nights
 
at the end of spring
when orange blossoms dream
from migrant gardens and we dream
from the burrows of our empty beds
 
on these nights
 
at the end of summer
when sweat mingles with sweat
and each lover’s salt
burns in the mouths of new wounds
 
on these nights
 
at the end of autumn
when the hunter’s moon, sweeping
the low horizon, tracks us
through yarrow sticks of bare tree tops
 
on these nights
 
at the end of memory
while the north wind numbers our bones 
 

@minwpb


  • Poems
    • a poem (Ars Poetica)
    • the boy who could fly
    • the conflagration
    • Dissertation
    • Dreams in Black & White
    • For the Dear One
    • Goya, The Third of May
    • Interrogation Survival Techniques circa 1988
    • In the South Pacific
    • In Your Global Warming Dream
    • The Irish Goodbye
    • The Lost Canoe
    • Marisol
    • Night Prayers to Guadalupe
    • On These Nights
    • Poem at the End of the World
    • The Scrutinies
    • The Smallest Color
  • GRAPHIC ARTS
    • Abstracts
    • Declining Nudes
    • Torso Study
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • Outback
    • Splintered
    • Walk About Colors
  • Contact