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Quayside musings
A portly pillar of spilled teeth moonlight ensorcelled the crane-tattooed water Overhead, impossible butter light from brotherless stars snuffed out in antient time Without as much as a snarl, yet every night they are restarted from death Love and oblivion twinned in the wind-worn idol of Astarte In the lane abutting, cardboard alight in a…
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Habit sticker
Lonely, smoking bones in lanes with dozy menaces Three days without sleeping, pores seeping out haze Bright lightful bringer of flame, crew a light brigade from Tennyson’s pages Seeing hues of changing seasons in the splayed canopy of greenest St. Stephen’s They come and I’ve got it, they gum it to feel iconic, that’s the…
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Everything must go
Waiting for replies so I can sell my old ties on Adverts Drew lots and severed old ties, used to be my guy But walked past you the other day like nothing happened It went from forever to let’s take it outside The bond was tried and found wanting, severed Its two frayed sides like…
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Scratching away the present
Rivers Slaney, Dargle and Vartry, throw a dart One cannot fail to hit some place of great sanctity and grace To live in such a dappled, wondrous place, its friendly denizens are grateful Here the wilds show us what Ireland is capable of being, with a cape of green A Goddess like a queen with…
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South Wicklow in wintertime
Road between Woodenbridge and Avoca magical in the snow Red kites like pinioned hieroglyphs gliding in antient triumph by peerless cliffs Fog like liquid fills up the dips, out from which flit bats and linnets in Spring O’er mine-pocked hills, where once Wicklow miners traced shim’ring rilles As grille and grid the moon’s half-hid facade…
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