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.

7 thoughts on “”

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. A poem with emotional touch!

    ambulance siren–
    smoke from the gun
    splits apart

    Pravat Kumar Padhy
    Publication Credit: LYNX, 28:2 June 2013

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