Poems by Colm

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  • Noble companion, stay striving still,
    keep thriving through weightier nuances...

  • Above my bed in time with the sway
    of curtains caressed by night's breath...

  • Pearl (7) 1

    The sweet stickiness of strawberry jam
    was the air of the airport, and on...

  • Pandora (8) 9

    If you were a planet, I bet
    you would dance around the sun...

  • I wake up every morning to an alarming sound,
    the sound of no sound...

  • In glowering
    wind, by rusty swings...

  • 3.10am (4) 1

    Your lips twitch, betraying the dream you're...
    Your slow breath is choral to the soft rain...

  • Milk (6) 4 HM

    I can hardly stand to watch, most mornings,
    her buttering crispy-black toast, scraping off...

  • She flicks a fanned image of Catalan art
    under the parasol with a twitching...

  • Ladybirds tiptoe
    my fortune-wrinkled palm trails...

  • You, coquette and lovely, once managed
    to encompass the allure of your sex...