I have four poems up at The Basil O’Flaherty, an online lit-zine based in Ireland. All four have appeared on this blog at one time or another.
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
O at the Edges 
Thank you for sharing, O.
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It was my pleasure, zGGy.
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PS – will be traveling there soon. Excited.
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Now that does sound exciting!
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All are excellent. Congrats, Bob.
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Thanks, Ken. It’s always nice to find them homes. 🙂
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congratulations……….they are beautifully written…..!!! 🙂 🙂
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Thanks very much!
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My pleasure!!! 😀
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Wish I could like or comment over there—but, anyway, congratulations, Bob. I remember having read three of these, but it’s always nice to rediscover stunning shifts in language. Keeps the creative mind sharp, although I might subconsciously borrow an idea here and there. What can I say in my defense except that your phrasings and techniques (the few that I’m able to discern) impress themselves into one’s creative mind!
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Thanks, Leigh. Borrow away! That would be the highest honor.
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…and i curl in the womb if these… let there beauty wrap me in tome of each poem’s light
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You’re very kind. Thank you.
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My pleasure… stunning poetry Robert
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Of* their*
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These meditations are at once almost nihilistic and empowering. The exploration of the what the point might even be for us to have this capacity for exploration is so perfectly assembled and explicated through the course of the series — beginning in a disoriented state of gaping into night’s maw, and ending, decidedly liberated (facing/welcoming disaster on one’s own terms) — is breathtaking.
The observation of the streets’ “grey hunger” in Bandera is devastating… and my favorite image here.
Congratulations, once again, amico!
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Thanks, Stephanie. Well, Bandera is rather a strange place. “Cowboy Capital of the World,” indeed. And I have spent many enjoyable hours there.
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crikey! you are getting a lot published these days, need to pull my socks up. well done Bob
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Ha. You should see the list of rejections!
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all part of the process my friend. i wish i had so many rejections, least it’d mean i was sending stuff off to be rejected.
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So good. Poetry to re read. I am about to copy the laundry into my hand copied favourites book. There’s something about hand copying that gets a poem into one’s blood. As for writing about zero, Brilliant.
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Thank you, Belinda. I’ve found the same to be true – to really know a poem, it helps to write it out. As for the poem about zero, ’twas nothing. 🙂
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Chuckle
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Congratulations, these are so beautiful. Great writes.
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Thanks very much. I’m so pleased they resonated with you.
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Congrats😊
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Thanks, Ranjeeta.
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Enter your Zen garden, and can’t find my way out, for exit is entry to another world.
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Much like the Hotel California…
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Thank you for the reply. We always exit and enter. I will respond in a haiku/senryu.
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Thanks for sharing and well done on appearing on the magazine!
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Thanks, Becky Bee! It’s always thrilling to share such news.
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Congratulations ⭐ you and your words shine always!
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Thank you, Melanie Ann. Much appreciated.
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Robert Okaji…Man of International Metonymy!
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Ha! Better metonymy than monotony. I think…
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Yeah, it’s much better. It’s poetry related!
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Congratulations Robert, well done and well deserved .
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Publication never loses its charm. 🙂 Thank you.
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Very true.
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Hurray, hurrah, huzzah!!! How lovely, and I am delighted for Basil’s readership that they get a taste of your marvelous work. All best!
Kathryn
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You are too kind, as always, Kathryn. Thank you!
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