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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'
APRIL SEQUENCE
1
sunshine paints wide skies
waves at Clahane have
never been so blue
2
a hare lopes across fields
leaps ditches, the heron
lands, 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 Resistenza
contra Mussolini’s fascisti
6
on the old Yugoslavia coast
my toes are pellucid as
I tread water
7
11th April might have been
our 49th wedding anniversary
I carry flowering currant, rosemary
8
he tells her not to swim against the current
she insists she will float with the tide
9
all the walls of EuriAlda’s apartment
are covered with his paintings
her face, her pointed breasts
are his images, vibrant colours
shout her praises
10
in Kilmacreahy cemetery
I place a vase of daffodils on
my husband’s Atlantic grave
11
a sheepdog follows
a string of Frisian cows
along the lanes
12
will you come
when the day
is ended
Water by George Hodan
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