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Injunction

Needles of rain. Ground makes no moan
Wind-sigh in the sycamore. What's passing.
Haw berries rusting the hawthorn hedges.

Don't look back. Think Orpheus. Pillar of salt.
One breath, then another. Sweat of apprehension.
Still life with wind and breadcrumbs.

But I keep wanting to turn around.
No whimsy in it, staggering the gamut
bright red. And as deadly, she said, as nightshade.

Still you went on. Looking at her lips.
Sea verge to cliff edge, no shaking off
what shadows you. Seeing that

rain-swollen torrent at Gurteen,
you wanted to give yourself over
to its foamy, stone-broken dissolution

of salt. And then? What's not, she said,
possible. Or was it a question?
Even this rocky crevice

where the wren is nesting.

—Eamon Grennan





 

 

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