Tag: Bone Orchard Poetry

  • ‘Eamon Ceannt Park’ by C. Murray

    Eamon Ceannt Park; a cycle I. Ingress. Her boot leathers are wet, grass-greened. Things have gone aground at the grove, only the fairy-ring stands in her circle of spectral gowns— her parasols all caught up in a breeze of light. Wood clattery heels sound against the stones at the gate, against a cluster of coppered…

  • Sequence: ‘Now’s Dark’ at Bone Orchard Poetry

    #1   now’s dark is a clever adjustment of the iris to the notlight,   now’s dark is an anguish of silhouette hidden in tree’s whispering reed   now’s dark is a white chair beneath a tree moon-illumined and somehow wrongly set   there..  #2   now’s dark is a heap of mottled silver black…

  • ‘Tree-Wheel’ by C. Murray

    Tree-Wheel In the rain its knuckled bark has the gloss of polish, a bottle-green patina. There isn’t a skull-head for pivot, tension is held in back of its palm it fists into the soil, raising it up. Beach Dragged impasto of seaweed aches against silver waves. I watch the wormholes ferry their glitter of sand in…

  • Bone Orchard Poetry, a blogzine for working poets and writers

    Bone Orchard Poetry is variously active on discussion sites and uses social-media well. This is what writers refer to as bloody good innovative web-use. Editor Michael McAloran keeps the blogzine brief in description, ‘ An explorative blogzine of the Bleak/ the Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental. ‘ There you have it encapsulated in a single…