A poem from my first collection ‘Cycles‘ (Lapwing Publications, 2013)
Stone weighting my palm
has sprung a cathedral
heart jumps
walking in the flesh of its surpassing grace
groin-vaulted and high as
no bird ever escaped to soar this
high-up—
seamless and
there is no blood
no feather
no bone—
stone cannot make the bird.
© C. Murray
- A version of Precarious Migratory Spectacular by C. Murray is one of two poems published recently in the Galway Review. This poem was collected in Cycles at Lapwing Publications (2013)
Chris Murray 