Poetry Reading I’m curled into a ball like a dog that is cold. Who will tell me why I was born, why this monstrosity called life. The telephone rings. I have to give a poetry reading. I enter. A hundred people, a hundred pairs of eyes. They look, they wait. I know for what. I […]
Tag Archives: Derek Mahon
Life: Beautiful or Monstrous or Both? Three Poems by Swir, Mahon and Gilbert
July 16, 2018 – 8:28 am
Happiness in a Broken World – Two Poems
April 12, 2014 – 2:57 pm
The fertility of the poetic mind! As my good friend and poet Liz commented to me today it is so surprising and wonderful the places a poet can be taken by an image. I had Liz’s comment […]