Author Archives: Eileen Neil

Aubade – Dawn Sky

Aubade – an acrostic Doubting not the day will come And rebirth the green garden you still Wonder at the vanishing stars of the Night sky, the emerging lilac Shifting to rosy pink Knowing each moment marks the turning of … Continue reading

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The tiny things of life….

You were lighter than the wind In my hand Your hollowed places, and the hole in you Through which I could see my own skin Opalescent gleaming, shell-like pearling So breathtakingly breakable, Yet forming a tower, a pyramid For the … Continue reading

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For my albino corydoras

Pale as a pearly moon hanging in translucent clouds Your scales shimmer as you glide serenely Wafting through the green and garnet undergrowth You pause and hide, shyly beneath the rampart walls Of the underwater castle, your breath softening Your … Continue reading

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On Solitude

Solitude makes an unlikely companion Impossible really As birdsong wafts in through My uncurtained window A mistle thrush, the uncensored urgency Of a tiny wren in the hedgerow And the melodious blackbird Perched on the wire Who called this state … Continue reading

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Crime story (This is mostly a true story)

It’s raining In the library skiving schoolchildren gather around a screen hallowed halls of silence mutated into a community hub while the real books inhabit an empty maze of shelves their slender spines unexamined I ask the librarian for a … Continue reading

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Virological Resistance

Caught in a moment of space and time On a mucosal surface, a strand of Ribonucleic acid with Olfactory symptoms forms a New pandemic Attacks the very depths of human breath Vulnerable, yet virally Individuals interconnect by internet Reviving resilience, … Continue reading

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