Also my thanks, Peter. A very interesting sequence, quite seductive,
with its imagistic threads.
Máighréad
On 23/01/2019, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Strong and skillful. I'm ordering his book. Thanks for the tip, Peter.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Riley
>> Sent: Jan 23, 2019 6:41 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: And no sooner than
>>
>> but along comes in the Fortnightly Review
>>
>> “A Boat-Shape of Birds” a sequence of 12 poems by the remarkable Daren
>> Breen
>>
>> http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019/01/boat-shape-birds/
>>
>> disturbing and reassuring, and resembling nobody very much except
>> perhaps a taste of Ted Hughes.
>>
>>
>> Winter wears its caul,
>>
>> from a moving train
>>
>> a tree standing alone in snow
>>
>> as if the world has been burnt away
>>
>> around it,
>>
>> the train moving backwards
>>
>> through Time
>>
>> bearing the bodies of the thieves,
>>
>> dressed only in falconry hoods,
>>
>> their twinned Crosses strapped tightly
>>
>> among the bicycles,
>>
>> when above a darkening field
>>
>> a crow hovering on stalled wind
>>
>> slid forward
>>
>> and dropped
>>
>> down
>>
>> from its shelf
>>
>> into an utterly different world.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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