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Jim O'Loughlin
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So Big
How could it be this small?
Only a stand of shacks.
Summer cottages with peeling paint.
Overgrown lawns along a dirt road.
It had been so big.
The whole world on a warm August weekend
When days would stretch forever and
I could hold a promise in my hand then
Skip it across the bay.
~Jim O'Loughlin
Jim O'Loughlin's work has been featured in Utne Reader's Webwatch and
published on-line at sites including Prairie Poetry, dotlit, and La
Petite Zine. He is the host of the Final Thursday Reading Series and
publisher of Final Thursday
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© 2003 by Jim O'Loughlin. All Rights Reserved.
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