Yellow diamonds, cheap ones to wear in my ears my first day. They sit on my nightstand latelyin a pile of seashells I often reach forinstead of my pen.I love the sound they make,turning them over in my palm and let fall,that I might join them where they land. I picked them up in the Chemist anyway,the earrings I mean.Two doors down from the newsagentwhere I buy chocolate … [Read more...] about On Landscape (Knocknacarra)
Creative Writing
Tea and cigarettes
There’s a field behind her house that nobody goes near anymore. It’s overgrown and soft underfoot, wet even when it hasn’t rained. The cows were moved years ago, after one of them got stuck in a drain. The gate leans open now, as if no one ever meant to close it. She walks there every Sunday morning, just after her mother leaves for Mass. Her boots squelch through muck and … [Read more...] about Tea and cigarettes
The Council
Image from pexels I’d be up and out the door by twenty-five to seven at the very latest. I would take the long road over, the ‘old road’. Fields turned from green to blonde to brown and back in one journey, or so it seemed after the first few years. I once said to John in the yard that I had blinked fourteen years ago and here I am. He laughed, but it was true. Time flies … [Read more...] about The Council
Jester
Image by Marcos Alberto Garcia Urrea from pexels Servant? Come-hither.Pull these cursed contraptions from my feetAnd hear me Jest!No, don’t heed my toes,They wriggle for rage!Vile worms, Quit this danceFor I know I was not selected;You needn’t natter.Servant, what is the difference betweenWorms and writers?Well, worms are hilarious.Why don’t you laugh?Do you know what you … [Read more...] about Jester
Life and its wonder
Life swirls around our busy heads While we stay sleeping in our beds Reeping all our experiences And recounting them as we did Life is strange, life is beautiful Life is tragic, life is wonderful But life itself is devoid Without the people who strive To help one another Instead of avoiding each other People come and go But memories … [Read more...] about Life and its wonder