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Songs of Earth and Light
Richesses: Francophone Songwriter Poets
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John W. Sexton was born in 1958 is the author of three poetry collections: The Prince’s Brief Career, foreword by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and most recently Vortex (Doghouse, 2005). He also created and wrote The Ivory Tower for RTE radio, which ran to over one hundred half-hour episodes. His novels based on this series, The Johnny Coffin Diaries and Johnny Coffin School-Dazed are both published by The O’Brien Press, and have been translated into Italian and Serbian. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem The Green Owl won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. His fourth collection, Petit Mal, is due this December from Revival Press.
Frog
Peeled free of my body and unfolded over the hillside, my skin would cover three acres, for I am the shining grass of morning, compressed in a croaking knot. The river I swim through is merely the dream of the red slimy river of my gut. I hold the world inside my mouth, ribbeting to get out. My throat chokes the world back to its place. I am the slippery jewel that god coughed up when time began. I’m the soft cog of the flesh-clock, the green spring for winding the universe down in. In the heron’s beak I am the Omega of swallowed things.
©2009 John W Sexton
Author Links Poems and bio at Poetry Chaikhana 'Whiskey for the Thing': a renku with Norman Darlington Short Fiction at VerbSap (Minimalist Fiction)
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