Authors /
Kathleen O’Toole
Kathleen O’Toole is the current poet laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland. Her most recent collection of poetry is This Far (Paraclete Press).
Behold Thy Mother
Madre della Consolazione by Nikolaos Tzafouris
Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens...
Convergence
In 2020 the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn . . . the closest
since 1623 and the closest observable since 1226! —Earth News...
Visitation
Some days, when my brother’s death
weighs heavily, I imagine his midnight
visit to my mother, appearing right
in the hallway door beside her bed...
Those Magi
—hijacked into foil-gilded greeting cards,
sung into libretti over organ chords. Sultans
or astrologers? They trekked into the unknown...
Terce: February
There must be a sutra that fitsthis mess: lumps of melting snow—markers of impermanence.Once the unspoiled beautyof fields of cotton, ski slope,...
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