To D. H. Lawrence
Two Infinities:
Publicly negate yourself with faith.
Privately taking pride.
On the bridge between the two
the planks read:
“To be” or “not to be.”
Stand on one of each.
Truth flows underneath
the divine dividing sea,
protected by reflecting everything
save Ophelia’s trophy weeds,
drifting slowly under the bridge and out of sight.
M. N. O’Brien received his B.A. from Roanoke College, where his work was published in On Concept’s Edge and received the Charles C. Wise Poetry Award. His work was most recently published in SOFTBLOW and Counterexample Poetics. He currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky, constantly risking absurdity in a Ferlinghetti sentiment, playing old folk vinyl records and studying astrophysics and poetry. He feels awkward writing in the third person.
