Start your story near the end and work backwards; you don’t know how much time is left to tell it, so choose a point and begin, just begin, maybe right before the cruel blank edge. Very well: one foot was cut in two by the border, toes floating in the unseen void, every later step… Continue reading Final Chapter
Month: December 2022
Two Irish Poems
BETWEEN MEATH AND KILDARE I wander, a solitary foragerlike Australia’s formidable Bull Ant,but my mind keeps going back and forth,asking if life is just a random lineon a map without scale or direction,as the Royal Canal I’m followingpasses from Meath to Kildare and back again.Maybe these kinds of thoughts were useful once,when contemplation could find… Continue reading Two Irish Poems
Two Australian Poems
SALT LAKE Sometimes the future’s flight is straight and smoothlike shining summer runwaysbut then it brings you way out herewhere the ground is endless crustthat snaps underneath your feetto free the thick black sludge that lurks belowand where the trees are pale dry prisonersthrust deep in permanent winter,their bony arms stretched wide in pleadingto whoever… Continue reading Two Australian Poems
Hope
Leeuwin Lighthouse, Western Australia The Indian and Southern oceans touch and then follow separate destinies. Humpback whales roll in the water, slapping their fins to send out spray and messages. Seabirds carry nest materials, dropping little pieces on the way as signposts. A magpie lands close by and sings; maybe to my red jumper, maybe… Continue reading Hope
Last Words
Before you throw me to my death from your high and scornful tower, just remember that certain things will always be true: half of us are used like mules to carry the others into oblivion; we don’t know if the world’s first sound was a groan a sigh a cry of joy of pain of… Continue reading Last Words
S.C. Flynn 