my brother’s gun
in the lock safe
condolence cards
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Roberta Beary
Roberta Beary lives in Mayo, Ireland.
Their work appears in Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less (New York Times, 2020) and One Breath: Notes from the Reluctant Engagement Project (Doire Press/ Clan Beo, 2021) which pairs their haiku with artwork by families of people with disabilities.
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A gut punch. Very moving and relevant and I'm sorry for your loss. And I'll comment as a psychologist with a specialty in this area —the research is clear and unequivocal that just having guns in the home – makes everyone way less safe.
A gut punch. Very moving and relevant and I'm sorry for your loss. And I'll comment as a psychologist with a specialty in this area —the research is clear and unequivocal that just having guns in the home – makes everyone way less safe.
Nice poem. Did you mean ‘locked’ safe?
can get more with a kind word
and a gun
than with just a kind word
……Woody Allen
This reminds me of some of Nick Virgilio?s best poems about his brother. Powerful.
A poem with emotional touch!
ambulance siren–
smoke from the gun
splits apart
Pravat Kumar Padhy
Publication Credit: LYNX, 28:2 June 2013
Very powerful. I keep going back to it.
Very moving, Roberta.
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