Showing posts with label modern poetry from Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern poetry from Ireland. Show all posts

Thursday, August 2, 2012

There Are Stars All Around



I am sitting on a park bench
 with a pool of sunlight almost on my lap;
 a cosmos of flies,
galaxies in Brownian motion,
 fills it.

I am looking into a park
after midnight;
 moths flitting beneath an unseen lamp
 are sparks streaking
from invisibility to invisibility.

I am lazing by a stream;
 the sun,
reflected in
innumerable scintillations,
 has ordered the universe
 to pulse beside my sleeve.