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M. F. McAuliffe
Do not ask who you are
in this room
of a Monday
staring at strange signs
do not ask who you are
in this strange country
far from home
at home they are dying
of government
do not ask
Who am I
if I am here?
Day like today
in the sheltering rain
I'd have the windows open
'f I was at home
cave in the rain
just
listening
'stead of
this light-box
work
windows
sealed
tighter than the walls
M. F. McAuliffe’s long poem “Orpheus” was staged by La Mama as “Orpheus, an
Australian Tragedy” at the Courthouse Theatre, Carlton, in May 2000. Her poem
“Crucifix I” appeared in the Yoko Ono installation “Arising” in the Reykjavik Art
Museum. Co-founder and co-editor of the Portland, Oregon-based, multi-lingual
magazine Gobshite Quarterly, her poems have appeared in Poezija (Zagreb), Thraca
(Athens), and many other venues. Her most recent title is 25 Poems on the Death of
Ursula K. Le Guin.
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