On Catch 22
in the kitchen
with the heating off,
reading a dull book
which I've been told
is quite good,
while the dog in the sitting room
pods about the sofa. she pulls
at cushions, drags the sleeve
of my coat, which I just dropped there
when I got in. careful
as a bird weaving branches, she makes herself
comfortable, goes to sleep.
out here, I lean on the chair,
put my arm up awkwardly. drink coffee. focus
on not doing that.
Diarmuid ó Maolalaí
A little about
myself; I'm a graduate of English Literature from Trinity College in Dublin and
recently returned there after four years abroad in the UK and Canada. I
have been writing poetry and short fiction for the past five or six years with
some success. My writing has appeared in such publications as 4'33', Strange
Bounce and Bong is Bard, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Out of Ours, The Eunoia
Review, Kerouac's Dog, More Said Than Done, Star Tips, Myths Magazine,
Ariadne's Thread, The Belleville Park Pages, Killing the Angel and Unrorean
Broadsheet, by whom I was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. I have also
had my work published in two collections; 'Love is Breaking Plates in the
Garden' and 'Sad Havoc Among the Birds'
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Poetry