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Peggie Gallagher lives in Sligo. Her work has been published in Force 10, THE SHOp, Cyphers, Southword, Atlanta Review, Envoi, Peregrine, West 47, Poetry Daily and Poetry Ireland. In 2011 she was shortlisted for the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition.
In Her Later Years Honorary Mention in the 2011 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition
with evening shrunk to a moth-beat,
what gladdens her is the random setting
of mismatched delph on the kitchen table.
Slowly and ceremoniously she lifts cups and plates,
examines their base, checks their place on the table,
sets them back with a deft exactness.
Ordered and absorbed, her delph ceremony
performed over and over; cups, plates and glassware
lifted and swivelled at eye level as if, for an instant,
a lens flickers, a glimpsed imprint swims into vision
bringing a wild delight to her eyes. Her lips tremble,
a faint whisper rivers the skin of her neck,
a remnant of stem crystal tilts in her bony fingers.
©2011 Peggie Gallagher
Author Links
Three poems by Gallagher on the Cavan Poetry Page Poem by Gallagher in The Cathach 'Ode to the Telephone Pole': poem in Southword 16
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