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New Voices [03]: Passage Plan – Daniel Wade

By Daniel Wade

Passage Plan

Anchor of yearning,
Cleat me to the seabed
Where boneless algae stands upright.
If the breakers grow fat on kelp,
Then let me sleep among the drowned.

Keel of tenacity,
Propel me through this saw-like cove
Before drowned sorrows resurface,
Oily as tentacles,
Intent on dragging our frail craft under.

Bowsprit of fealty,
Lash my limbs to the figurehead
When green salt spices the deck
And no terra firma stands in sacred sight,
That I may face the wind’s crescendo.

Yard-arm of solicitude,
Poise me above board, over the gulf
That an iron prayer may be offered
For this uncalled ship
To land at safer shores.

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Daniel Wade is a 24-year-old poet and author from Dublin. His poetry has appeared in Optic and the Seven Towers 2014 Census among others; he is a graduate of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, where he studied English and Journalism. He poetry has been published in Optic, Limerick Revival, Wordlegs (e-publication), The Stony Thursday Book (ed. Paddy Bushe), HeadSpace Magazine, the Seven Towers 2014 Census, the Bray Arts Journal, The Sea (charity anthology in aid of the RNLI), Sixteen Magazine (e-publication), The Bogman's Cannon and the Hennessey New Irish Writers’ page of the Irish Times. He has also featured as guest on Dublin South FM's Rhyme and Reason poetry program, as well as on Writer's Block. In June 2015, his radio drama, The Outer Darkness, was broadcast on Dublin South FM. A prolific performer, he has also read his work at various festivals, including the Electric Picnic, Body and Soul, Noeliefest and the West Belfast Festival.