Young Woman Reading by a Window - Delphin Enjolras From: Mossbawn: Two Poems In Dedication for Marie Heaney Sunlight There was a sunlit absence. The helmeted pump in the yard heated its iron, water honeyed in the slung bucket and the sun stood like a griddle cooling against the wall of each long afternoon. So, her hands scuffled over the bakeboard, the reddening stove sent its plaque of heat against her where she stood in a floury apron by the window. Now she dusts the board with a goose's wing, not sits, broad-lapped, with whitened nails and measling shins: here is a space again, the scone rising to the tick of two clocks. And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin Seamus Heaney (13th April 1939 - ) from the book: Poem for the Day One |
Thursday 23 August 2012
The Thursday Poem
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