Come Down From Your Hills/ from Rumours of Another Summer

Come Down From Your Hills – Come down from your hills and see me Remind me when I was a girl Tip my kisses with honey Bathe my feet in your curls – Soft green grass in showers of gold Apple blossoms swirl like snow Echoless laughter my hands on your face – Come down [...]

May Day/ for dublin

  Looking For Work In Dublin   The same girl sitting on different buses going by over and over I knew if I saw her one more time the rest of the world would completely liquefy and go with her. Wishing to avoid that whirlpool of a thing I knocked back the coffee, paid and [...]

salamander yellow pad

  salamander yellow pad Sunday, March 4, 2012 re Joyce part 4 Three minuets to home and home work. Not to bad though. They were nuts for it back in Ireland, sometimes two hours or more of the stuff in third class. She still missed her friends from the little two room school house, neighbours, [...]

Wanting to be in the old tongue

working title of new collection: WANTING TO BE IN THE OLD TONGUE poems of an irsh descent 76pgs approx. should be done in two weeks or so. til then hold your  breath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

why do i like vox poetica? they have impeccable taste in poetry.

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears When I wrote new songs and you would listen out of friendship By PD Lyons Where we were always cool By the reservoir In the pines Up some stairs tucked into angular corners Warm winter kitchens smelling of gas Down by the factories Not sleeping all night Into [...]

Should The Question Beg For Answer

Should The Question Beg For Answer will the water be beautiful? will I thank every drop of the sea? the sky, will  it  be so blue, I’ll find ships sailing in the clouds? and emearald and hawthorn would i lay down there again? rise to wander mists by fairy lakes secret women drift in sleek [...]

3 wee ones from Ravens

The Other Days unsettled grey rains across the lake even the fire duller now as if unable to breathe   your absence  airless and without remedy   ~~~~~~~~~~~~     Catzen Every moment Of sunlight The cat Knows Just what to do ~~~~~~~~~~~   Shelly Gone To America Rain whispers Through my open window Night [...]

may all who journey

7.oct.09

First frost of the season last night. everything softly greyed at 7am. Not a hard one but a steady reminder of the ever changing world here on retreat land. have to get some of the potted plants back in from their summer hiatus. the grapefruits werent too happy this morning. Shelly is on the phone [...]