Fergal Gaynor

from Stepping Poems

IV

 

Dry commotion
a cast of bones

 

*

 

what?
would you burn
shadows?

 

*

 

evening lights the fires
so under the northern star
sign of endurance
the inner life opens
the characters line up

 

*

 

you
the first time
by a wrought-iron gate
among laurels
among yews

 

*

 

echoes
the afterlife

 

*

 

on the water’s surface
sunstrikes
gathering
NOW

 

 

Copyright © Fergal Gaynor, 2007.

Fergal Gaynor lives in Cork, Ireland. A collection of his work will appear shortly in the U.S.A. from Miami University Press, Ohio.