Tag: Kelly Creighton

  • A Celebration of Irish Women Poets on Bloomsday 2013

    Rebecca O’Connor Domestic Bliss   I place a jug of lavender on the table to mask the smell of mould from under the fridge   while you draw nails to hammer with your fist. Then I draw a hammer , and watch   as you try to lift it from the page. by day it’s…

  • ‘Redeeming Faith’ by Kelly Creighton

    Redeeming Faith   My parapets were worthless assets I made, my sombre lookouts to watch for your leaving and ease darkness with dancing forms, outlined; no comfort for lost convictions.   My assurances were the altered me, to expand before you my existence and cut as you wished, joins that kept my heart, my soul…

  • ‘World Put to Rights’ by Kelly Creighton

    World Put to Rights The dream that burst riverbanks held you; blackstrap molasses, antidote for your poison. Your plummets spraying wetness like a coin in a cascade woke no-one, not even us. The church spire grew legs, scaled bricks, ran to your side, spotlighted. I put glass over that glow. Quiet-huff of your refuge, flailing…