Revenge of the Love Song of the Boy Parachutist

← v13n1, Spring 2014

This is the only thing I am

good at please

don’t ask

if I am okay I will give you a sign

it will be

white

below me the dog goes and goes his plumage

snow and chutney

if I live and learn

to cook I will greet you each morning a platter

in my two

steaming arms if

I am not okay it won’t be much different arms spread

over winter

gooseberry bushes

the dog approaching in his cape of joy

love solitude humor

Liam O’Brien

Liam October O’Brien’s work has been published in print in Unsaid Magazine , and online at The Offending Adam . His novella, The Girl in the Crown , was shortlisted for the 2013 Paris Literary Prize. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2012, where he received the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Poetry and the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction. Photo by Joseph Bensimon, 2013