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Syrian Pastoral

May 28, 2017July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

So say you had a farm outside Aleppo...

The Last Post (A Georgic Blog Epilogue)

November 7, 2016July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

—Thus I sang the fields of change, the flocks of self,/While Tsar Trump thundered war across a continent...

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...

Ludwig

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

Before the battle,/The mad, killing throttle,/Brutus and Horace perused Aristotle...

Iphigenia

December 22, 2014July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

A storm arises at the port of Aulis, preventing the Greek fleet from sailing for Troy. Their leader Agamemnon consults the seer Calchas for advise on calming the storm...

Panthera’s Watch

July 16, 2014July 3, 2020 ~ Daniel O'Hara ~ Leave a comment

A mess of enemy light this cold Judean sky,/Illuminating goats and the shit of goats...

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