by Annemarie N’ Churre’in<\/p>\n
Breathless, the whole way
\ndown, skimming
\nfuchsia, rag-ferns,<\/p>\n
to the road below
\nwhere an old school bus
\nwaited;<\/p>\n
a stream of girls,
\nwet hair trailing
\na scent of apples<\/p>\n
in the left-behind air,
\norchards
\nimagined us<\/p>\n
fetching from wells,
\npitchers of silver equations,
\npoems, plant names.<\/p>\n
In the evenings,
\npale foreheads throbbed,
\nsmall steps<\/p>\n
returning uphill
\nfell
\ninto careless unison,<\/p>\n
something
\non those short journeys
\nbetween worlds<\/p>\n
conjured
\nsisterhood
\nfrom unshared histories,<\/p>\n
separate blood,
\nincomparable desires
\nafter summer<\/p>\n
when the lane
\nwas high with new grass
\nand each girl<\/p>\n
had her own dream
\nto swim
\nin the greenness.<\/p>\n
### Breathless, the whole way
\nAnnemarie 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.<\/em> 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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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