Poem of the Week: Death of a Derelict

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A new work by by Dolores Stewart

in a southern sky. Sundowners dancing with bush shadows.with ghosts, now that the tracks are cold. One of the mates gonefor tomorrow’s fill, the dream of three square meals. A day’s tramp.on the banjo. A bog standard coffin hitting thick black curtains.

a sourdough dreaming backwards, grizzledto give him a fair go, looking as if they’d known all alongLaughing gear aside as they watch. The soul of the derelictDrifters drinking with the flies, shuffling the cards again,Dolores Stewart writes poetry in Irish and in English and has published collections with the Dedalus Press and with Coisceim. Her most recent collection is CoolChaint, published by Arlen House in 2020.

 

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