CLose Quarters

by Alicia Byrne Keane


 
It’s taken me so long to notice this singe or seam, accenting leaf-blades		cherry-dark & threaded, a whole Wednesday reiterating bloom as a toppled mass.I try to draw the succulent & find only twists or noodlings, can’t chart the swell 	  	o…
 
 

 

Alicia Byrne Keane is a final year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. Alicia’s poetry has been published in The Moth, The Colorado Review, The Cardiff Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Banshee, Abridged, and Entropy, among others; the poem “surface audience” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.