Smithereens Press Chapbooks The Sea Path by Ciarán O'Rourke | Page 15

rising round us
in the summer heat.
~
Higher still,
a flock of sea-birds
dragged its net
across the sun, omen
of a sky all swelt
with foreign rains,
which soon
moved in,
the dark air
trembling
with an eyeblue light.
~
My sight strung
to the kite
of your back,
long and lovely
and supple with
spindrift, the seas

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