Eamon Grennan Blue Poems

  • 1.
    Looking for distinctive stones, I found the dead otter
    rotting by the tideline, and carried all day the scent of this savage
    valediction. That headlong high sound the oystercatcher makes
    came echoing through the rocky cove
    ...
  • 2.
    Scattered through the ragtaggle underbrush starting to show green shoots
    lie the dark remains of rail sleepers napping now beside the rusted-out wreck

    of a Chevy that was once sky-blue and now is nothing but shattered panels and
    ...
  • 3.
    Through an accidental crack in the curtain
    I can see the eight o'clock light change from
    charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventing things

    ...
Total 3 Blue Poems by Eamon Grennan

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