Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Fleas, nipples and an alternative to 'get your kit off'

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The 17 th century poet, Robert Herrick, clergy-man and bachelor, said a lot more than his prayers: Upon The Nipples Of Julia's ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Running Away

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I can't say for sure that I ever planned to run away as such, but, as a boy, I often thought about taking up permanent abode in my tr...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Passage

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         We were lovers; now I'm off and you're packed away; you folded up small. So with curving spine and arms be...
Saturday, June 17, 2017

A Love Poem

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What good is poetry  if I cannot lay a path of moonlight on waters I’ve so recently stirred with anger, release blossoms in...
Monday, June 12, 2017

The baby in the tree

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The baby in the tree is screaming. High above the pathway near the black tips of the sycamore branches he is gaping, wh...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Bodhrán

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As pipes catch the foxhunt and the whistle the blackbird, the bodhrán catches the sounds of country-life. A good bodhrán player plays l...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Breathing

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We take it for granted. And then comes dying, we stand around the bed watching the work that is breathing. And you think my father is d...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Abandoned House in Donegal

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The calendar collapsed in the centre; her chair facing the wind; the  tv hanging in the wardrobe; her b...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

February sunshine silvers bare branches.

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She, sitting at her kitchen table, turns her hands upward to run her eyes down the insides of her arms, to see how the water wi...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Hughie

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Hughie thinks of sex without faces; he often thinks this way because there never was a welcoming face, so he never had sex, and thi...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Beautiful Killing

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"One of the things we will discuss is the purchase of lots of  beautiful  military equipment because nobody makes it like the United St...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Dead

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His marbleised features are set at neutral; a look that never was his. So this is not him, but was so recently. Container ...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Attitude

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Intended to catch the 'does he take sugar' attitude to people with physical disability, the poem relies on the word 'owns' ...
Monday, May 8, 2017

The other day Louise and I promised each other our lives without speaking.

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We made love and stayed in each other’s arms for a long time without opening our eyes or talking,                           but e...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Short Coversation

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The moon is a hubcap   fallen off the earth. I am a pendulum   treading time. “I'm blind”    says the moon.  “I'm...