Gorey Writers in The Scaldy Detail 2011

Phelim and Carol at Scaldy Detail
launch in Enniscorthy library 5/1/12

 
Scaldy Detail 2011

The following poems by Gorey writers Phelim Kavanagh and Carol Boland have been included in The Scaldy Detail 2011 Anthology of New Writing from County Wexford :

Wave's in Eight's

Students surf on sea and neon

free of college parcel

and good counsel

take their coffee late

swap their morning juice

experiment with flavour

learn to coast

under the lifeguard's radar.

The fall comes, an ocean

gives away degrees,

back to the old school

formal swimming pools

caught in a ripcurl

class and timetables rule.

Phelim Kavanagh

The blue mountain

A spit of snow lies on Croghan’s face

jilted after the cold snap

that left parishes standing

like Miss Havisham in her mottled gown.

It needs snow to move snow, they say

so in expectation I watch for a battleship sky

to snag itself on the blue peak

scarred by chainsaw

damaged forests, promises

while below me 

the river Bann cuts

through reeds and

green willow as

I trace the line of its curve,

rush of shallows

silence of its deep

imagine how it feels to walk

over mud-raked copper fields

and slip into the naked water

step by step.

Back on the road again

I stand at an altered hedgerow

swollen with marigold gloves

broken bottles, crushed vows

gather them up for the tip.

Carol Boland