Paraic O'Donnell | Writer. Lives in a very small way.

Poetry

  • Synaesthesia

    Synaesthesia

    It’s nothing really, just a way of treasuring things, a feasting on the bright world that…

  • Proximity

    Proximity

      The other lives are closest in the heat. When we unshutter the house, when sleep…

  • Are You Sure This is the Place?

    Are You Sure This is the Place?

    I joked on Twitter recently that I had resubmitted all my New Yorker caption contest entries…

  • Emissary

    Emissary

      I have failed in this world and I am greatly afraid that even my observations…

  • A First Time for Everything

    A First Time for Everything

      It is less acrobatic somehow than you imagined, or did you imagine it? Because why…

  • Mesmerist

    Mesmerist

      I. He never laid hands on me, all that time, except the usual which he…