Tag: The Stinging Fly

  • “They say we made it up” and other poems by Wes Lee

    Lifesaving They don’t do it anymore, breathe into the mouth to save. We had learnt it reluctantly, lined up beside a recumbent dummy, waiting to take our turn to kneel at that mouth. The simplest things disturb – at night when the fluoros shut off and the cover is pulled, the tiles swabbed – there…

  • “Sundowner” and other poems by Clare McCotter

    “Sundowner” and other poems by Clare McCotter

    The House The regularly-occurring representation of the human form as a whole is that of the house ~ Sigmund Freud This is my house my place my home first one I ever owned leave now you dirty scum she screams at auxiliaries gripping wrists and raging elbows washing face and neck and shoulders. This is…

  • “Tarmac” and other poems by A.M. Cousins

    “Tarmac” and other poems by A.M. Cousins

    REDRESS After Junichiro Tanizaki. Give us this day your problems. Allow us to torment ourselves about shadow and beauty and good taste and we’ll swap all that we’ve got for one hour in the life of a tortured artiste who wants to sit in a fancy lav and listen to a mosquito. We’d leave the…

  • ‘Wild Fennel’ and other poems by Tess Barry

    Raspberries I started out in western Pennsylvania hills with wild raspberry and blackberry bushes and my mother’s apple field. Bread and ripe fruit and fresh milk. My mother cleaned the carpet right off the floor. My father was a Troy Hill boy who played piano and smoked Pall Malls and drank whiskey. He won my…

  • ‘I Saw Beckett The Other Day’ and other poems by Órfhlaith Foyle

    ‘I Saw Beckett The Other Day’ and other poems by Órfhlaith Foyle

    Photograph of Her Brother’s Skull   They give you to me, a numbered skull from a high shelf and in my hand you are a strange brute thing – a thing I hardly see -my brother.   The clean smooth bone of you – the whole of you no longer with me. In this room…

  • “The Valley” by Kerry Hardie.

    The Valley by Kerry Hardie. The first valley is the Valley of the Quest, the second the Valley of Love the third is the Valley of Understanding the fourth is the Valley of Independence and Detachment the fifth of Pure Unity the sixth is the Valley of Astonishment and the seventh is the Valley of…