Smithereens Press Chapbooks The Sea Path by Ciarán O'Rourke | Page 44

in its tiny poise,
its eyes and fingers
beautifully unfearful
of what my bonedull hand conveys:
a stillness
total as your picture’s is,
but riddled also
with heat
in the mind, the suncaught suddenness there,
and the blood-beats.

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