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Conor O'Callaghan is from Dundalk. He has three collections from Gallery Press. The most recent, Fiction, was a PBS recommendation and shortlisted for the Irish Times/ Poetry Now Award. He teaches part-time both at Sheffield Hallam University and at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and currently lives in Manchester. .
Mid to Upper Seventies
He rests The Narrow Road to the Deep North on an arm of the sunroom sofa-bed. He walks to the front to change the AC setting.
His father is asleep on the floor before the hearth of a gas fire that has gathered cobwebs since March. Val Doonican, muted, is rocking on TV.
The year is now. The house is forty miles or so south of the Virginia line. He hasn’t seen his father, spoken with him, in at least a decade, and Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia when Val’s one-man slot came on the air.
He goes back in the sunroom. Neither Val nor his dad will be there when next he walks out front. The book has fallen face-down on the oak and it takes him a really long time, weeks in fact, to find his place.
©2009 Conor O'Callaghan
Author Links Audio, articles and poems at Poetry Foundation 'Among Other Things', O'Callaghan poem at Poetry Daily
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