about the author
Elizabeth O’Brien writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and her work has appeared in Swink, PANK, Versal, Juked, A capella Zoo, The Emerson Review, Euphony, The Found Poetry Review, Flashquake, and other places. She lives in Somerville, MA.
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Lessons Hard Won
Elizabeth O’Brien
After all it is the difference that galls.
The baseline that keeps
my father is his limit.
The most precise word I would use
for the sky is not merciful.