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For March's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'April Sequence' by Rosy Wilson.
It is taken from her collection 'Up on the Hills and All at Sea'
 Water by George Hodan Purchase Your Copy Below  | APRIL SEQUENCE 1 sunshine paints wide skies waves at Clahane havenever been so blue 2 a hare lopes across fields leaps ditches, the heronlands, hunches shoulders, I lean on my cane by the bridge over River Deelagh – these are my prayers 3 he says ‘don’t jump in’ she says ‘I will swim’4 the story is… 5 only seventeen when Euri joined the partisans fighting with Tito in the mountains for la Resistenzacontra Mussolini’s fascisti 6 on the old Yugoslavia coast my toes are pellucid asI tread water 7 11th April might have been our 49th wedding anniversaryI carry flowering currant, rosemary 8 he tells her not to swim against the current she insists she will float with the tide9 all the walls of EuriAlda’s apartment are covered with his paintingsher face, her pointed breasts are his images, vibrant colours shout her praises 10 in Kilmacreahy cemetery I place a vase of daffodils onmy husband’s Atlantic grave 11 a sheepdog follows a string of Frisian cowsalong the lanes 12 will you come when the dayis ended |