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Nathanael O'Reilly - Dear Nostalgia

from One Minute Poems by Rancid Idols Productions

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Dear Nostalgia,

will you ever leave me alone? Will you refrain
from sliding into my bed at four in the morning
when you find me lying awake after releasing
the dog? Will you stop pursuing me, embracing
me with your brown Yarra arms and narrow Liffey legs?
Why do you insist on waking me with memories
of past geographies, decomposing relationships,
the deeds of youth? Do you think I might forget
the brilliant blues, the amber glow, the snug fug
of cosy belonging? I’m not sure I need you
anymore. Perhaps I’ve reached the farther shore,
survived the breaking surf, dragged my exhausted self
from the undertow, staggered onto a new continent.

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from One Minute Poems, released October 6, 2022
The poem was published in the June 2021 issue of the journal In Parentheses: New Modernism and will appear in O'Reilly's forthcoming chapbook form above/ground press, also called DEAR NOSTALGIA

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