Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of The Guns and Flags Project (University of California Press, 2002). He lives in Oakland, CA and teaches creative writing and literature at UC-Berkeley.

Other poems by Geoffrey G. O'Brien in Verse Daily:
December 27, 2005:   "Amorous Poem" " The calla lilies have arrived, they come..."

About The Modern Review:
Poets in this issue: Pietro Aman, Jorge Lucio de Campos, Adam Fitzgerald, Paul Gibbons, Dobby Gibson, James Grinwis, M.J. Iuppa, Boris Jardine, J.P. Lewis, Gianmarc Manzione, Ted Mathys, Laura McCullough, Geoffrey G. O'Brien, Vincent Spina,