Léaslínte

Simon Ó Faoláin

– do Zoë

Bhí an canary chomh marbh le hArt le tamall,

Ach ar chuma éigin agus sinn ag glíomáil timpeall

Fé sceon sa dorchadas, d’aimsigh ár lámha roth an aerghlais

Is chas

Nuair a bhris ár gceann barr farraige bhí an t-ádh linn:

Cnó bán pleastach ar snámh i measc na raice,

Gur bhláthaigh – buí mar dhuilleog báite –

Ina rafta tarrthála

Brúchtann ollbholgáin aníos

Le cliseadh gach bulcaide.

Ná bac leis – ní hann dúinn san áit sin níos mó –

Ach tóg do cheann

Cé nach fada a mhairfidh ár stór bídh

Agus n’fheadar cén aimsir atá chughainn,

Nach álainn iad na tonnta seo,

An spéir?

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119:

Edited by Vona Groarke

Poetry Ireland Review Issue 119 includes new poems by 48 poets including Frank Ormsby, John Kinsella, Rachel Coventry, Aifric Mac Aodha, Gerald Dawe, Alice Miller and Claire Potter. Also included are translations by Richard Begbie and Kirsten Lodge, an essay on Bishop, Lowell, Heaney and Grennan by David McLoghlin, and reviews of Paul Muldoon, Paul Durcan, Sarah Clancy, Medbh McGuckian, Kate Tempest, George the Poet, and many more. The issue also features photography by Hugh O'Conor, Dominic Turner, Sheila McSweeney, Fergus Bourke and John Minihan.