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Sile
My grandmothers name was Sile.My father’s mother. She was mad.She lived like she was on fire.And then lived madder and more.Until I last saw her, gibbering over a hot cup of something and sucking a quality street. Breaking my eight year old heart into the marbled blue of her rheumy eyes.And putting a fear into…
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Bite
Bite my lip Until she bleeds like blossoms from the cherry tree I stay awake all night for you I am a hive of bees The juice of wild strawberries I am the quiver on the arrow Pull me back towards you tell me where to go tell me what’s good for me Let me…
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The Keeper
I am at home between the indentations of teeth marks on your forearm fingernails dragged down shoulder blades “do no harm” that maxim keeps on waxing with each phase of us; it illuminates the cuts I score on you as if it were to see my scars you must be made to suffer too. I…
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Maybe I am dreaming
My wrists are duckegg white and the water from the tap is warm my lips feel bitten and awake maybe I am dreaming? I watch the mirror attentively and notice how colourful it feels just to see I squint to remember the lights that smashed the wet streets of Galway city I am struck by…
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Small Tortoiseshell
I am held by you and feel nothing Maybe I am selfish? A butterfly lives in our kitchen. I wish I had broken plates and dishes, not trust. I am killing myself because I hurt you I am selfish. I hold and help no one. My suffering is sacred, I treat yours like a nick…
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Bones
I gave you my bones to have to make things from. You took the bag of them. I gave myself grief and misery about houses and friends, about the bitter and willful end. I mourned my parents though they are not yet dead. I sat with the rain and let the thistles sting my feet.…
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Opium
‘No one dreams like you.’ I am dancing in a meadow I pull up my dress and let the sun reflect on my lunar skin. I am striped like a white tiger in pearlescent lines camouflaging my arms, breast belly and thighs. I am singing out in sacred sighs and robins come to watch. ‘No…
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The Cave
Human ribcage human ribcage I’m being watched and seen What do I have locked up? Breathe. breathe Someones coming… I’m scared of everything. I wish bone myself again and again, let them snap me in two, make a better woman for this one, be a better friend. See who would get the best of me…
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Jam
Jam happened on your sleeve and i cottoned on to your secret misery, so you fell in love with me Jam happened on the bottom steps of the stairs When I swung round my hips rolled my shoulders and shook down my hair Jam happened when we danced on a Slovenian rooftop afterwards I watched…
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Starling
I The bird was confused. She flew into the window and broke her neck. We buried her in the garden by the tomb of Nano Nagle, near some Christmas saplings. Little light, tiny thing. Darling. He calls me darling. He keeps from raising his voice or whetting his words. I am crazy. I bury the…
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