Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Away

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  As a crumpled up page, thrown there, discarded; in a vague way the shape of the fist that scrunched it; a man on a pavement...
Monday, July 22, 2024

What shape is our love

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  1. What shape our love: a circle I believe. And what colour that shape: buttercup yellow. What constitutes the circle: the vil...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Still in Love with You

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  The sun playing the water; I could hear those notes long after sunset. Still in love with you was the song singing  in the small hours ...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

His View on The Loss of Habitat

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  The loss of habitat: “ criminal”, he says. “ Not nearly enough consideration, governments must do more.” “ A worldwide effort, ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Sebald's Icicles

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  So when Sebaldus heaped icicles on the fire and watched them blazing bright as firewood, was it his faith in the benevolence of God; ...
Monday, July 1, 2024

His Days

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  His days are the fields his cattle graze, the years run from under his feet in meadows of primrose cowslip meadowsweet fireweed: the m...
Friday, June 21, 2024

She in her house

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  She in her house converses a lot: asks questions, answers them; debates, argues; always wins the argument. Her decor spare;...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

No One Knows

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  No one knows what wars were waged in your head. That you were bruising on the inside was clear, but locked up in silence ‒ a huma...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Love

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Let’s pare away what’s not needed; carve it back to the vein running rich through the stone. Not the media noise: lazy visuals, pu...
Monday, June 3, 2024

The Arrival of Civilisation

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  The mangled corpse: bludgeoned; skull gaping, gore-spattered, blood-soaked. That intimacy with slaughter, we call it savagery; their ...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Monet's Water Garden

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  Each lily is a flaring match, a stud on Monet's  liquescent  mind. .
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

May Stroll

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May’s detonation of summer growth;  walking down a lane between two hedgerows  overgrown with cow parsley  like confetti suspended in its ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Labour

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  Death has arrived into your breathing: you labouring to stay alive. I’ve never been so aware of the lungs as bellows; how basic the me...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Dog

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  A long way off, across the open strand; small, minute even, a couple walking a dog. Picturesque and sweet somehow, their  silhouettes ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Strokestown International Poetry Festival 2024

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From the 3rd to 5th of May poetry lovers will  be in Strokestown along with many of the finest poets around including Rita Ann Higgins, Jane...