I woke with an old sense
of entering a clearing
as a boat breasts a strait of reeds
from one lake to another
with no notion of the vastness
in front, behind; a settler
thinking himself still, feet
either side of a century,
belongings mere ideas again,
a scattering of atoms, a constellation;
rainfall, each drop still pure
after its million collisions.
Ted Mc Carthy is a poet and translator living in Clones, Ireland. His work has appeared in magazines in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada and Australia. He has had two collections published, ‘November Wedding’, and ‘Beverly Downs’. His work can be found on www.tedmccarthyspoetry.weebly.com.
Steve Komarnyckyj’s literary translations and poems have appeared in Index on Censorship, Modern Poetry in Translation and many other journals. He is the holder of two PEN awards and a highly regarded English language poet whose work has been described as articulating “what it means to be human” (Sean Street). He runs Kalyna Language Press with his partner Susie and three domestic cats.
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