The Galway Review
Rustin Larson‘s poetry appears in the anthology Wild Gods (New Rivers Press, 2021). Recent poems have appeared in London Grip, Poetry East, The Lake, Poetryspace, Pirene’s Fountain, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. His chapbook The Cottage on the Hill was published by Cyberwit.net in April of 2022.
He is on faculty in Maharishi International University’s MFA in Creative Writing program.
St. Patrick’s Day
A sparrow batters through one of the bell vents
holding a shamrock in its beak.
Everyone rushes to the nearest tavern.
It is time for a long walk and then for sleep.
I deliver your car (with the help of a friend)
like your newborn, your first born.
“Now slow, easy, don’t panic, and don’t press down
so hard on the accelerator; it will get you nowhere.”
You were the intrepid girl I kissed,
once in the doorway of your dorm,
once in the big blue cherry…
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Published on July 10, 2023 06:50