Daniel Donaghy | The Sun Magazine

Daniel Donaghy

Daniel Donaghy’s first job was at a beauty-supply factory, bottling hydrogen peroxide and nail-polish remover under the el tracks in Philadelphia. His latest poetry collection is titled Somerset.

— From November 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Fire

A chair flies through your window and someone’s screaming for you to come out and you’re fourteen and he’s twenty and there’s nowhere to go and no cops coming and no one to make this any better, and you become a flame that can’t be extinguished.

November 2023
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