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Donall Dempsey
Poems
Jun 3
SUCH GENTLE VIOLENCE
SUCH GENTLE VIOLENCE
unseen
a shoal of fishes
turn &...turns again
above them
a moon covers her nakedness
with a passing cloud
the lovers make love
with such a gentle
violence
the waves argue
insistently with the shore
"Shhhh,,,!" says the shore "...shhhh!"
a noise stops
and becomes
a mouse
mouse
stops
gazes into an owl's eyes
its shriek lost
in the faraway barking
of a little brown dog
the lovers at long last
asleep
turn and turn again in the heat
a small breeze
whispers its secrets
to the warm dark
unseen
a shoal of fishes turn &
turn again
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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