and the ghosts came from the chimney,and the seams beneath the door,and from you I had a dream worth dreaming,and those feelings, from before, come whenI’m vulnerable and sleeping,I remember how we tried —is it the you that lives your life that’s living,and the one I knewthat’s died? 2021

bhuail mé le gaeilgeoirí,mo chairde dhílis – zúm, ar líne!an Ghaeltacht an Oileáin Úirbhí fhoilsiú chláir chun muid staidéar. shuigh mé síos le ríomhaire –thaitníonn an ghriain taobh amuigh –ach nuair a d’oscáil mé é lánbhí fadhb beag le rang agam: níor thug mé faoi deara roimhe seona fuaimeanna a shíneodh!: tógáil agus tógáilí,otharchairr, na …

i’ve seen this river once before,i’ve seen this lake,i’ve seen this shore:the liffy in the morning sun,st. lawrence once the day’s begun,and traveling the world wide,i found myself along the seine,remembering the galway bay,pacific where i used to play,the train along the hudson ran,atlantic where my dreams began,but quiet rivers running deep,erasing now my memories,the …

and when I woke that morning throughthe window gentle sunlight streamedupending, blue the blanket, not in shadesof gray as usual in winter bound,much like the place where sky andsnow meet infinite, for now reflectingquiet I awake to greet the sun,missing dearly now so late into Novemberwe were living, but a pause beforethat weather we were …

the sun did rise all red and goldo’er the mountains far.and nearest to me the mist did floato’er gullies in the dark.and to the east I saw onlythe night in deepest blues abovebut to the west I only sawthe distance to my love. Fall sunrise through the New York countrysideA Companion Poem2016