Tagged: “The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry Volume 1”
Poem of the Week: “Sleepwalking” by David Wheatley
I want to feel it again: what I felt
when I woke once standing in the kitchen
after walking downstairs in my sleep.
The school bags had all been lined up
and the lunches packed in clingfilm…
Poem of the Week: “Tomorrow” by Dennis O’Driscoll
I. Tomorrow I will start to be happy. The morning will light up like a celebratory cigar. Sunbeams sprawling on the lawn will set dew sparkling like a cut-glass tumbler of champagne. Today will end the worst phase of my life. I will put my shapeless days behind me, fencing off the past, as a…
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