narcissus
not step twice into, not
step back from stream.
its nets are storm blackened,
narcissus’ flower is a cut out.
it has shut in the cold,
skeining back into the bud.
echo and,
outbreath
he skeins back his thread
the blind buds are always.
step
(not-step)
back then.
step
(not-step)
back then,
back from the black river nets.
narcissus was first published in the Spring 2017 issue of Compose Journal
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 Chris Murray is an Irish poet. Her chapbook Three Red Things was published by Smithereens Press (2013). A small collection of interrelated poems in series and sequence, Cycles, was published by Lapwing Press (2013). A book-length poem The Blind was published by Oneiros Books (2013). Her second book-length poem She was published by Oneiros Books ( 2014). A chapbook, Signature, was published by Bone Orchard Press (2014). “A Modern Encounter with ‘Foebus abierat’: On Eavan Boland’s ‘Phoebus Was Gone, all Gone, His Journey Over’ ” was published in Eavan Boland: Inside History (Editors, Nessa O’Mahony and Siobhán Campbell) by Arlen House (2016). A Hierarchy of Halls was published in February 2018 (Smithereens Press) and Bind was published by Turas Press in October 2018.
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