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Two Poems in December

December 17, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

'Dawn' & 'Written in Rain'

Callimachean Distich

December 2, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

One can die from anything, from Werther to the Phaedo...

The Wall in Iraq

November 25, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ 1 Comment

The deepest past’s mere meters down...

Bucolic III

November 11, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

Gentle, the fields, slowly, eating the bones,/Blood drinking, men upon them, new, compete,/Goat bone, sheep blood too, gently now and slow...

Bucolic II

October 22, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

the wand of sage Wergilius/turns many a magic trick...

The Death of Virgil

October 15, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

Phoebus descends on Megara, beats down/the crops with his coming...

For God and Crusty

October 8, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ 2 Comments

What can the nationalist reply/When reptile naturalists imply/That even mighty Urland’s glory,/Like a mite, is transitory?...

Psychebabble (or, When I die I want to be made into a nice chest of drawers; or, There’s no man speaks better Latin)

September 23, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

Nothing is speaking to human consciousness...

nos patriam fugimus

September 5, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

red cherub on the shore/sea shore grave yard...

Bucolic I

August 31, 2015July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

Tityrus lounges in the shade,/Bees lullaby the sleepy glade,/The reed sings soft, soft as the grass—/Then Meliboeus comes to pass...

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