Poem of the week The weather beaten scarecrow
almost 4 years in The Irish Times
A weather-beaten scarecrow leaves the field a turn or two it takes to calm its tattered mind I imagine this scarecrow will not return Professor Pam Lomax once said to me I never ever contradict myself unless I change my mind but that is not the turn of mind I have in mind more like the road in David Hockney’s Garrowby Hill or The road to York through Sledmere or a road somewhat less than a Pauline Damascus a bend a turn a twist something that keeps one awake and lights a fire in the next beat and breath this or that or neither this nor that but something richer fuller than has happened until now
Dublin-born James Finnegan’s first collection was Half-Open Door (Eyewear Publishing, 2018). A second collection, The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow, is forthcoming with Doire Press in 2022.
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