Eamon Grennan Dark 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
    ...
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  • 3.
    All Souls' over, the roast seeds eaten, I set
    on a backporch post our sculpted pumpkin
    under the weather, warm still for November.
    Night and day it gapes in at us
    ...
  • 4.
    At her Junior High School graduation,
    she sings alone
    in front of the lot of us--

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  • 5.
    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
    ...
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