The Burning Bush 2, issue five, June 2013
And he said
yeah I might in a while.
And I thought
they're like children really, though with a child you can always look forward to them leaving home for good.
Éamon Mag Uidhir is a Dubliner living in County Kildare. He has had poems published recently in Cyphers, The Moth, Crannóg, Revival, and online in Misty Mountain Review. He edited Icarus while attending TCD during the 1970s and currently maintains an online shrine to the sonnet form at www.sonnetserver.com
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