Saturday, January 17, 2009

Dream After Falling Out


You took all 
the yellow pills:
destroyed the place.

I took the 
lift to escape:
found myself

on the old flat roof
with a How To book
and a man

with a colossal tongue.

by Kathleen Kenny

2 comments:

The Bijou Poetry Review said...

Kathleen Kenny is a writer of Irish parentage who lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She earns her living as a part-time creative writing tutor at the Centre for Lifelong Learning. Her latest collection of poems: 'Firesprung' was published recently by Red Squirrel Press.

Howie Good said...

Good stuff!

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