• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Poetry of the 1500s
  • Poetry of the1600s
  • Poetry of the 1700s
  • Poems for Kids
  • War Poems
  • Every Poem

Every Day Poems

A Poem A Day

  • Home
  • Book Publishers
  • Literary Magazines
  • Stories
  • Poems
  • Promote Books
  • Advertise
  • Submit

Laundry by Annemarie N’ Churre’in

October 29, 2012 by Every Writer

Laundry

by Annemarie N’ Churre’in

Here in the Indian foothills,
I share a house with a man from Greece

who speaks no English perfectly,
disappears for days on a motorbike,

leaves his laundry on the low make-shift line,
grieving an absent sun.

Side by side they hang: his shirt, my summer dress
as if they know each other well

and when he returns, smelling of engine oil,
monsoon, rolled brown cigarettes,

we have no formal language
to share our separate joy.

Drip-drip on the balcony,
a queer, white pool gathers below.

He holds at a sleeve, looks to sky.
I open my palm for signs of rain.

###

Annemarie completed an M. Phil in Creative Writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin. Her poems have been published widely in Ireland and the UK and have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Stinging Fly, The SHOP, The London Magazine, Agenda Magazine and The Morning Star. In 2011, she was short-listed for the UK Erbacce Poetry Prize. Annemarie lives in Dublin and is currently completing her first poetry collection. She is contactable at Creativeceardlann@gmail.com

Filed Under: Urban Poem

Primary Sidebar

AD




Search

Latest

I’ve Set Out All of the Traps for Us by Kiara Nicole Letcher

I start to miss you right after you leave
and then at night I feel a deep ache
in that need spot.

The Shaman by Larry D. Thomas

Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, was the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published several award-winning and critically acclaimed collections of poetry

Now and Then

Phil Huffy writes early and often at his kitchen table, casting a wide net as to form and substance. His work has appeared in dozens of journals and anthologies, including Schuylkill Valley Review,

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in