Barbara O’Brien | The Sun Magazine

Barbara O’Brien

Barbara O’Brien is a production editor who lives in Bergenfield, New Jersey, with two children and two cats. Since 1988 she has studied at the Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, New York.

— From February 1992
Poetry

The Prophet Explains Religion

OK so he don’t look like a prophet but he’s / A real smart old guy. Got a place / Over a Chinese restaurant on Broadway / & you got something you want to ask / Just take him some chateau la hooch & go up the back way. / Says PROPHET IS IN on the door.

February 1992
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