Rose Kelleher
Jul 01, 2010
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The Older Twin
A little boy at play
too long in the Atlantic.
His lips are bluish gray.
His mother’s calling him,
increasingly emphatic,
but he would rather swim.
Moving to old music
something paleozoic
is homesick.
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Rose Kelleher’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Able Muse, The Raintown Review, River Styx and The Flea. Her first book, Bundle o’ Tinder, won the 2007 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and is available from Waywiser Press: http://waywiser-press.com/kelleher.html
Yes…I love how swimming makes us part of the history of the sea. Lovely.