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Poem of the Week | Echoes in Your Absence by Oisín Moloughney
Echoes in Your Absence
By Oisín Moloughney
familiar voices echo
the way many hands
permeate dangling halls.
you seem irreplaceable,
exotic & shameless in
your absence.
even here I remember
your violent…
Poem of the Week | How to count as a child (correctly) by Alice Kinsella
How to count as a child (correctly)
By Alice Kinsella
Count patterns on the wallpaper
at night, ignore the stars outside
in their billions, as many as grains
of microplastic on every beach.
Count the…
Poem of the Week | The Unevolved Cactus by Lauren Anne Cassidy
The Unevolved Cactus
By Lauren Anne Cassidy
I take on love
Like a boat
Takes on water
And hold it
In my body
Like the belly
Of a cactus.
It does not help me
During the dry months
Or drought – …
Poem of the Week | The Rover by Jen Hughes
The Rover
By Jen Hughes
Opportunity
Has been lost to the dust storms.
Spirit crashed
On the punishing terrain below.
So now there’s just me Curiosity
Finding out as much as I can About this cold, aloof…
Poem of the Week | Fox by Fionnuala Ní Gheannáin
Fox
By Fionnuala Ní Gheannáin
Wintered Fox
Soft fur tufted
Conversation interrupted
Harsh winters slumber pale echo of transitory memory
Juicy carcass
Lush fruit of frosted morn cracks and bursts
In Narrow maw and then…
Poem of the Week | Two Poems by Maeve McKenna
Social Boats, Sinking
By Maeve McKenna
I am screened, polished, mimicked by dumb
mouths in artificial mirrors, talking back.
The scent of my body, its pungent genetics,
lingers on thin bandages of light…
Poem of the Week | The Abolition of What’s Next by Kevin Higgins
The Abolition of What's Next
By Kevin Higgins
It is ten to whenever
and must remain so.
The living room door
will remain ajar
at exactly that angle.
The cat will forever
have just opened…
Poem of the Week | Two Poems by Clare Mulvany
Bioluminescence
By Clare Mulvany
The waves of West Cork are dancing with light.
They hide under the canopy of darkness,
growing in their secret.
In this lake: liquid lore.
In these waters: tincture of stars. …
Poem of the Week | Dancing with Lyme by Cathy Donelan
Dancing with Lyme
By Cathy Donelan
It took the life out of me.
Cold sweats with a shiver of something new –
a ‘ningle’, if that’s even a word.
It doesn’t sit right on the flat of my tongue
but I can feel it in my…
Poem of the Week | Three Irish Mothers of the 1950s by Amy Egan
Three Irish Mothers of the 1950s
By Amy Egan
Sometimes I think about the moment
my grandmother, married late and unexpectant,
told Grandad, grower of trees but indifferent to fruit,
(he’d upped, then rooted deep for…