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

Poetry

  • Evensong

    Evensong

      I. Listen—the sea is memorising stones retracing steps, chalcedony and quartz. The cave is thronged…

  • Flight Time

    Flight Time

      The hours of flight are hidden time, inviolate somehow, exempt from the insistence of the…

  • Voyager: An Electronic Reading

    Voyager: An Electronic Reading

    An electronic reading of my poem ‘Voyager’. The reading is based on a public domain recording…

  • Voyager

    Voyager

    May all be well. This is a small heart I have carried in the dark. Hello…

  • Late Period

    Late Period

      The house, once you have gone, enters its own late period. The noted drapery those…

  • Esperanza

    Esperanza

    I. The things I did to keep you from harm no scissors ever touched your hair…