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The Medal

THE MEDAL Bear, would you like to see my purple heart? Terrified, I followed Uncle Eddie up the stairs, expecting to see--God knows, what...
National Review, 12/01/09 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Adult Western: a mental movie

ADULT WESTERN ADULT WESTERN a mental movie When old King Colt still ruled the ribald West With iron hand: You buttoned up your vest. Put...
National Review, 07/06/09 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Trinity

TRINITY TRINITY I saw a small boy on a back lot in New York, Crouched, burning flies alive in a sealed jar With a magnifying glass he...
National Review, 05/04/09 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Gwain and the Green Knight

GWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT GWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT Imagine that huge ogre glaring green Burst in this Christmas, snorting on a charger,...
National Review, 03/23/09 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Anglo-Saxon Nature Gnomes

ANGLO-SAXON NATURE GNOMES ANGLO-SAXON NATURE GNOMES For frost to freeze, for fire to burn trees, For earth to hide seeds, for ice to bridge...
National Review, 01/26/09 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Walpurgisnacht

Engrossed in her dark climacteric, Engrossed in her dark climacteric, How the earth heaves and groans-- Shrieking across the obscure moon...
National Review, 08/18/08 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication

The temple of the mind

THE TEMPLE OF THE MIND * THE TEMPLE OF THE MIND * Illusion: imagined, a closed universe, a fiction, a shadow, a glittering mask: to feign...
National Review, 01/28/08 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Idols

IDOLS IDOLS Suddenly they look ridiculously old Our idols--comical and out of place To us, who through our priest-craft pierce their...
National Review, 12/03/07 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
Mr. Alfred Uruguay

MR. ALFRED URUGUAY MR. ALFRED URUGUAY He walked between the hard green oranges --The puritan among gross images; Stepped back from stiff...
National Review, 10/22/07 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication
American gothic

AMERICAN GOTHIC AMERICAN GOTHIC It came with the house-- God in the attic; And a stream underground That made him rheumatic. Why...
National Review, 08/13/07 by Richard O'Connell · More from publication

The Medal