Midsummer - a poem by Isolde Carmody
Channel: Isolde ÓBrolcháin Carmody
Date: 2013-11-25

MIDSUMMER
by Isolde Carmody

a bright midnight 
shadows long and sharp
dawn chorus of donkeys, dogs and blackbirds.
none can sleep. 
quiet is a moth on the far side of the glass. 
short enough to hold a breath 
and notice the turning of stars.