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Cataracts and Hurricanoes, by Joseph O'Brien
Joseph O’Brien
—for Poff
We settled to great small talk on the back porch
Despite green skies and scratchy radio warnings;
The beer was cold and the rain came down in sheets
To simmer a stew in the gutters — Texas summer
Was wild with the life of a single weather pattern.
We smoked it, talked it, and drank away the hours…
But your life was revolving one way, off-kilter,
With crazy winds dividing and threading through
Your attention to studies, love and betrayal.
And I was turned another way, tearing up and away
From Dallas — though at that moment friendship,
A loose roof shingle wavering in the gale, adhered.
Joseph O’Brien was born in Freehold, New Jersey, and lives on a homestead with his wife and eight children in rural Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin. He currently works as a staff writer for The Catholic Times, newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, and as a freelance writer. He has published three volumes of verse with Stone Silo Press and his poems have appeared in a number of literary journals. “Cataracts and Hurricanoes” is from Departure at Hebrus, forthcoming from Korrektiv Press. The author’s photograph is by Gordon Browning. The poem is published by permission.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Cataracts and Hurricanoes, by Joseph O'Brien
Cataracts and Hurricanoes, by Joseph O'Brien
Joseph O’Brien
—for Poff
We settled to great small talk on the back porch
Despite green skies and scratchy radio warnings;
The beer was cold and the rain came down in sheets
To simmer a stew in the gutters — Texas summer
Was wild with the life of a single weather pattern.
We smoked it, talked it, and drank away the hours…
But your life was revolving one way, off-kilter,
With crazy winds dividing and threading through
Your attention to studies, love and betrayal.
And I was turned another way, tearing up and away
From Dallas — though at that moment friendship,
A loose roof shingle wavering in the gale, adhered.
Joseph O’Brien was born in Freehold, New Jersey, and lives on a homestead with his wife and eight children in rural Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin. He currently works as a staff writer for The Catholic Times, newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, and as a freelance writer. He has published three volumes of verse with Stone Silo Press and his poems have appeared in a number of literary journals. “Cataracts and Hurricanoes” is from Departure at Hebrus, forthcoming from Korrektiv Press. The author’s photograph is by Gordon Browning. The poem is published by permission.