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Tuesday November 22, 2011

Ronnie McGinn's Poetry Page

If you have a poem you'd like to see published in The Irish Examiner then send it to:

The Poetry Corner
The Irish Examiner USA
1040 Jackson Avenue, Third Floor
Long Island City
NY 11101

or, preferably, you can email it direct to
ronniemcginn@eircom.net.

If possible keep your poem to 20 lines. You may choose any subject you like, in any form you like as long as it's original. We look forward to hearing from you.

Marguerite Maria Rivas teaches English at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her work has been published in The Americas Review, Earth's Daughters, Multicultural Review, Waterways, Changing English, among other publications.

She has received numerous grants and awards, including the Marg Chandler Memorial Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her book of poems, Tell No One: Poems of Witness is forthcoming from Chimbarazu Press.

Splintered

We navigate decaying docks
and rusty remains
of boats wrecked and moored
as tentatively as brittle autumn leaves
to the branches of beech trees
in the late November wind.


Let them sink with their histories
of stormy seas and bilge, Love.

Let us journey inland,
sift the soil
of the island of our births
beneath a bower in the woods.

Suffused with the quietude
of the marriage of true minds
we lay, your leg tossed
over mine in the unconscious,
casual way of lovers
who have known each other
before they were born,
who will know each other
after their bodies become earth,
whose minds interpenetrate even in sleep.

I'll rest my head on your shoulder,
let my hair spill across your chest.
Let us sleep here a while on our bed
of leaf litter and lace
of Autumns past,
burnished once more.

© Marguerite M. Rivas

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