Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Miracles and Accidents

 When I was four years old

my mother told me

I was a miracle.

When I was eleven

my father told me

I was an accident.

If I had to choose

I’d be the accident

with nothing expected

and leave the miracles

to Christ.

 The New York Quarterly. New York, NY. Number 64 (Summer 2008). p. 77.

© Ryan Quinn Flanagan