Poems by R L Swihart
Epiphany
Sotto voce
You are in the audience
You are on the stage
A child's plaything
is limned in light
grows dark
upon the page
Oblivion
like a curtain
falls
The Road from Sligo to Drumcliff
Without apology
the boy empties his pockets
spilling out a few marbles
strings and jacks
A tinker's wagon tethered to trees
by sagging clotheslines
The carrot-haired lass who answered him
with the brogue of her smile
The whale of Ben Bulben
buoyed above the fog
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