Dion O’Reilly, Second Place winner of Narrative’s Seventeenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of three poetry collections: Limerance (Floating Bridge, 2025), Sadness of the Apex Predator, and Ghost Dogs. In addition, her work has been included in several anthologies, including A Constellation of Kisses. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and has spent most of her life on a small farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains.



SECOND PLACE WINNER


Oh for Fuck’s Sake

by Dion O’Reilly
Spring again. Yellow
wreck of acacia, low-slung
branches, rain-heavy,
wind-whipped,
hitting the car roof
on our way out;
People on couch
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