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Morgan Driscoll

Morgan Driscoll is a long time commercial artist, looking to express himself in some other way than selling Widgets. Poetry seemed the least commercial, and most under the radar way he could think of. So far it has been a satisfying, but obscure journey.

He has been published in The Amethyst Review, Humanist Magazine, The Penwood Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Mused, Califragile, Without Words Anthology, Constellate Magazine, Pure Slush, Caesura, and the Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, among others.

Coastal EpiphaniesPhotography, Poetry

Coastal Epiphanies

Morgan DriscollMarch 5, 2024

Clouds so low they move         against themselves in parallax,                         putty gray on an icy blue. The boat moves too                     on top of inky waves…

The Nature of Your EmergencyPoetry

The Nature of Your Emergency

Morgan DriscollFebruary 28, 2024

Call 911 she said her chest felt like a siren blare, I’m scared, we’re there atop the landing. She’s climbed the stairs she couldn’t…

Last CallPoetry

Last Call

Morgan DriscollJanuary 6, 2024

The day she fell my mother had 30 rolls of toilet paper neatly on her linen closet shelves. The list of things I might…

Quiet RecognitionsPoetry

Quiet Recognitions

Morgan DriscollAugust 30, 2023

When distant wishes calling you in breezes rushing off the bay, return, as blush of deja vu, of distant whisper calling you to kisses…

Artificial IntelligencePoetry

Artificial Intelligence

Morgan DriscollJuly 11, 2019

The last time at the office of the otolaryngologist I had smartly typed my next appointment promptly on my smart phone screen at the…

Impact of WarPoetry

Impact of War

Morgan DriscollJanuary 3, 2019

Boneyard leaking bones till shifting rivers, tilting hummocks tilling plows of oxen turned to tractor, turned to combine, pull the last remaining shrined remains,…

Such a Worm as IPoetry

Such a Worm as I

Morgan DriscollOctober 5, 2018

Postlapsarian, we carry in pockets, the lumps of perceived iniquities which, distract us from our actual guilt. The impure loin or purloined pear or…