Poem Of The Month: September 2012

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For September's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem To spite the marrow………… – by Michael Mc Aloran.

It is taken from his new collection The Non Herein– .

To spite the marrow………… –

Definitive absence

(asked of)

Prayers of the wherefore

(asked of)

Till head-struck

(asked of once again)

Silenced

(asked of)

Silenced

(asked of)

Denuded heart of spit

(asked of)

Caress of none

(asked of)

Till head-struck

(asked of)

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