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What More Can I Add
by Thomas O'Connell
Where I lived my life
The known way was an impasse
Acres between us
The martyrs to the sunrise
Reading Sunday newspapers
Dreams that we could not afford
Shadows on shadows
Nature is ordinary
I cannot fix it
Heroes when we were children
Would deliver wide eyed springs
What more can I add
Thomas O’Connell is a librarian living on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, NY, where he happens to be the 2015-2016 poet laureate. His poetry and short fiction has appeared in Elm Leaves Journal, Caketrain, Jellyfish Review, Hobart, and The Los Angeles Review, as well as other print and online journals.
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