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oneiresthesia.bsky.social
@oneiresthesia.bsky.social
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2025 Oregon Literary Fellow @literary-arts.org

Assoc. Poetry Editor @thedodgemag.bsky.social

Poems & essays in Yale Review, The Journal, West Branch, Massachusetts Review, Missouri Review, Hayden's Ferry, etc

Dual Irish-American
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It's here!
September 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The doubled thrill of having a poem in @haydensferryreview.bsky.social and sharing an issue with writers like @jrigamonti.bsky.social and @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social!
"Physics, Lapsing" by Christine Barkley I am psychic about the physics of pain; lack of limitation, expected reckoning. Sometimes I think I have no imagination, though when I say I think I mean I worry which is a thing akin to imagining, or else married in. Then I won't ever marry, I say, engaged. I will predict a future, not tell the truth. For what instead are rings my punishment? An entropy of bone, tendon, ligament. Laws holding fast some center where I'm not ever there, always not inside anything, only losing light and mind like new nickels through an old seam. And I can’t sew up. Calm down. Clean house. I’m the worst of daughter or wife, unrelated or witholding, fucking off for the evening. The natural state of life is night, so this is all the time. I'm bad at physics, bent into the biology of this illness.
January 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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First post here, I guess! Feels fitting that it's my much-anticipated (by me) poem, "Semantics of Shock," with @yalereview.bsky.social.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:24 AM