deepdown torrent the sea the sea
Andalusian girls asleep in the shade
glancing eyes primroses violets create
yes red slippers yes I will Yes drown
wooly jacket lovely hour coming home
nightwalkers and pickpockets quays dark
evening wildlooking laundry ride me swelling
pleasure dew danger dream garments blue sea
guitar bathing plunging
into the sea
mourning for the cat
young stranger
squeezed squashed sleep in the coalcellar green dress
rainy day dribbling along in the wet coming home
staring sleeping hard peach perfume pouring jingling
poking rooting ploughing climbing hanging
cricket match walked home
a stone of potatoes
curtain clapped dance barebum
tongue touching plumpudding
dark knocking roughness carelessness flirting
whistling Venice moonlight romps
smell of the sea saltwater flannel trousers
hot as blazes cat she rubs up drunker
falling up the stairs stripped love chamber performance
moated grange at twilight excite eyes figure wheelbarrow
Irish homemade beauties sparrowfarts mists voyages
drowned windmill hill I loved looking running twisting
dancing pigeons screaming
I blew exploded bang wild
dreamt of her firtree cove
bird flying below us
tortured rousing tickling tender finish it off
white blouse caressed them robbing chickens
crushed flowers bloometh handwriting singing
silver dress sundancing domineering
the coffee bottom ash pit trouble mahogany swindle
wonderworker talking Bushmills whisky bursting booming
always waiting waves and boats drenched with sweat
dancing sashes warm bath rainwater the levanter heat
whistling train
tumbling tongue
lips shout fire
smoother skin
milk me sweeter thicker hurt teeth mark bite nipple
kick or bang lemonade greenhouse nymphs strumming
marsala fatten laugh sucking in Grafton street bank office
Inchicore September champagne oyster knife combing
measuring mincing food and rent burn violet breathing exercises
bottle of claret stout at dinner hanging tender fingers cracking nuts
featherbed mountain Glencree dinner outsider swearing blazes
skyblue silk fireflies dragging canal lock teeth Irish beauty
boycott politics
thumping piano
eloped jaunting
in a train holy show
charming girl whistling peaches port flushed tossed boiling embrace
breaking tearing freak persevering hungry rain skulking skirt raincoat
brazenfaced skeezing begging tasting the butter hearthrug fire bracelet
excite him waggling laughing wipes water washed up potato cake poems
fuming housewarming dressing perfuming punish thunderbolts whisky or stout
confession on canal bank wildly pretending imagine knitting woollen Dublin
pressed by the Tolka singing denying stealing potatoes ruining blottingpaper
wrangle in bed covered it up slinked out flirting hides razor imagine dying tragic
smelling my fur
politics and earthquakes
great leg laid up
breakfast in bed
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Nathanael O'Reilly is an Irish-Australian poet residing in Texas. His books include Boulevard (Beir Bua Press, 2021); (Un)belonging (Recent Work Press, 2020); BLUE (above/ground press, 2020); Preparations for Departure (UWAP, 2017); Distance (Ginninderra Press, 2015); Suburban Exile (Picaro Press, 2011); and Symptoms of Homesickness (Picaro Press, 2010). His poetry, published in fourteen countries, appears in journals and anthologies including Anthropocene, Cordite Poetry Review, The Elevation Review, Ink, Sweat & Tears, New World Writing, Mascara Literary Review, Ponder Review, Westerly and Wisconsin Review. He is the poetry editor for Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature.
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