DONALD HALL WOULD
HATE ME
if he knew me
I don’t want to be great
it takes me 10 minutes
to write a poem
sometimes
& then
I want to whisper or
shout it about
town
My poems are usually brief
they resemble each other
they are anecdotal
they do not extend themselves
they make no great claims
they connect small things to other small things
I LIKE SHORT!
I just want to kick the leaves
& have done
—Mairéad Byrne