Brendan O'Connor was a 2001-2002 Lannan Poetry Fellow at Georgetown University. He lives and works in Syracuse, NY.

Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
May 3, 2005:  "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005:  "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005:  "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005:  "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004:  "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004:  "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004:  "Father Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003:  "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003:  "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003:  "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

About 32 Poems:
Poets in this issue: Julianna Baggott, Jeffery Bahr, Douglas Basford, Eric Beeny, Michelle Bonczek, Bruce Bond, Geoffrey Brock, Jenny Browne, Michael Burkard, Leigh Anne Couch, Kevin Craft, Tom Daley, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Carol Frost, Jeannine Hall Gailey, James Hoch, Judith Kerman, Matthew Ladd, Jay Leeming, Greg McBride, Brendan O'Connor, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Frances Justine Post, Haj Ross, Stan Sanvel Rubin, Todd B. Rudy, Thom Schramm, Steven D. Schroeder, Josephine Yu, William Wenthe