THOMAS FRANCIS O’DONNELL

SUMMER ISSUE #09 POET

Thomas Francis O’Donnell has worked as a bookseller, actor, and librarian. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

THE WATER

I want what

the water

                  wants,

a bed to lie

down in,

a comb of grass,

to go

where the yielding

goes,

following

                  contours,

inclinations,

paths,

where dammed

means

            rising deeper,

brimful,

a bowl

            of sky,

a looking-glass.