Friday, August 15, 2014

Reading

The writer has left

the wine ring on the book

as loud
as words.

- Brian Walter

Saturday, August 2, 2014

This Autumn

This Autumn
his avocado tree
is more than neighbour now

leaning over our yielded fence,
inclining towards the hedge,
homing in and showing off,

gossip ripe and intimate.

I reach out to the branch's reach
and take this offered fruit

that seems to fall
around my feet.

- Cathal Lagan