Kimberly O'Connor

This is from my (soon to be re-titled) manuscript-in-progress Dear America.

Brief History of St. Patrick’s Day in America 

Where to start– 

Potato blight? A woman, starved, 

cradles a dead baby,  kneels. 

St. Patrick explains the trinity 

using a shamrock.  

No Irish Need Apply. 

America, your children cut 

paper clovers and pinch 

each other, mean. 

You get dead drunk . 

You dye your rivers green. 

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