Monday, March 24, 2014

Three Scenes from a Midland Town

Three Scenes from a Midland Town

1.
Marty Regan’s shiny coffins are loitering
along the out-house wall.
Lukie Dyer, waiting outside Anderson’s pub,
fag burnt close to the knuckles,
is doubled over in a fit of coughing. 

2.
Toothless,
Pete Boland’s  grin
floods his face.

His eyes are
salmon leaping.

3.

After mass
the pints
on Murphy’s counter
are a meeting of stout clerics.

 

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