Smithereens Press Chapbooks The Sea Path by Ciarán O'Rourke | 页面 27

as if to make
grief ripple,
life break through,
to see you sit
without contagion,
your hands at ease,
or leave entirely,
your shadow flying
from the sickbed sheets,
like a sunset suddenness
seeping the sedge,
the corncrake
croaking love tomorrow
at the island’s edge.

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