Sunday, October 30, 2022

Withering Peach

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  His face, a withering peach dried of happiness; cares relentlessly tapping at his temples; years spent yanking a livelihood from obstin...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Hopelessly Adrift

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  Let’s say, I was to walk out in public bent into this shape: it would be concluded that I was a half-wit; from posture alone! And l...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Box

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  The house is a box. I live in it, like my skull, among my things, navigation markers of my everyday. Beyond the windows chaos,...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

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  Happiness, a sudden burst into song, driving along, turning the radio up, world streaming toward of you and it’s all yours.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Moment

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  You, in stillness at the kitchen table, in a melancholy slant of evening light, gazing past the tableware  at life. In that moment,...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Allingham Festival Book Launch

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I'm looking forward to sharing a launching event with  Caoimhin MacAoidh  at this year's Allingham Festival. I'll be launching  ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Threshing Floor

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  Sometimes the sky runs through you: a light-saturated blue, streamers of white cloud. I’ve admired your free spirit, envied your lig...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Reflection on the Death of a Loved One.

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My deepest sympathies to the families of those who died in the tragic explosion in Creeslough. I can barely imagine the feelings of devast...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Audio: Michael reads 2 poems from his new collection, 'The Sound of Water Searching'.

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To The Slaughterhouse, Klimt Moment
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Closed up

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  Here is time, a jacket hanging on a nail. And here is sunlight, dumped on the disused counter. Here is its shadow slashed down...
Saturday, October 1, 2022

In Thrall

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  A tree, choreographing its own movements, has curled back on itself, the better to see: its veins have made a map of the sky and ar...
Friday, September 23, 2022

On the Water

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  So small a boat atop so wide a water, seeing myself reflected two-dimensional over so vast a depth, and afraid. So vast the dept...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

What is a Kingfisher?

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  Kingfisher: an emission of blue light resulting from the discharge of electricity following the path of shortest distance bet...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

“Making Peace with Nature is the Defining Task of the 21st century”, UN Secretary-General

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It seems no government is going to take the necessary steps for environmental or climate change. And until they do, private individuals wil...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

About our children.

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  Inside the fog of adult worries, her terrors hulk; fears beyond comprehension remain unspoken, she lacks the words; her child’s face...