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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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