{"id":3388,"date":"2014-08-15T18:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2014-08-16T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:34:18","slug":"poetry-maeve-osullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/poetry-maeve-osullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"POETRY BY MAEVE O’SULLIVAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"white<\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

White Star<\/strong><\/h3>\n

the majestic steamer
\nslips into the sea-
\nfirst voyage<\/p>\n

spinning his top\u2026
\nthe child who survived
\nto die three years later<\/p>\n

she goes back in
\nfor the hat from her mother-
\nmakes the lifeboat<\/p>\n

the pills in her pocket
\neventually identifying
\nthe lost Irishwoman<\/p>\n

anchor, propeller
\nside-scuttle\u2026
\nthese rusticles
\na hundred years
\nin the making<\/p>\n

White Star<\/em>\u00a0is \u00a9\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Sullivan<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

\"drying<\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
\nBare-legged, in light, pale clothing,<\/span>
\nthree young women stand on an urban rooftop;<\/span>
\nNew York, probably, or some other big city.<\/span>
\nThey are letting the wind dry their hair<\/span>
\nwhile white garments sway on a line behind them,<\/span>
\nand the chimney beside them casts a long shadow.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nIt is 1912, and Sloan\u2019s subjects could be sisters:<\/span>
\none redhead in a green skirt, one brunette, one blonde.<\/span>
\nThe brunette looks approvingly at the redhead,<\/span>
\nwhile the blonde brushes her hair which hangs<\/span>
\nlike a curtain, her head titled to the right,<\/span>
\nthe left hand on her hip for balance.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nI imagine they are chatting about the night before;<\/span>
\nwhat they did, who they saw dancing, girl talk.<\/span>
\nOne of them could be softly humming<\/span>
\nAfter The Ball<\/em>\u00a0or something jazzy;<\/span>
\nno World War to bother them yet, and no Depression,<\/span>
\nthis year forever marked by a ship called the Titanic.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nThis is how I would like my three sisters to be;<\/span>
\nclose, relaxed, hanging out happily,<\/span>
\nthe brunette smiling at the redhead, the blonde<\/span>
\nstill long-haired and carefree, and me,<\/span>
\nthe youngest girl, looking on<\/span>
\nfrom the gallery, taking it all in.<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/span>
\nSunday, Women Drying Their Hair<\/i>\u00a0is \u00a9\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Sullivan.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

<\/h3>\n

\"fire\"<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Heartwood<\/strong><\/h3>\n

West African proverb:\u2019When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Book by book, a library burns down
\nwhen someone dies in Africa; the fire
\nconsumes the memory, the sensorium.<\/p>\n

And when he lights his robes of orange-brown,
\nthe monk rejects the\u00a0puja<\/em>, picks the pyre
\nas, book by book, his library burns down.<\/p>\n

Three hundred people in a Midwest town
\nwere burnt alive like blossoms on a briar,
\nwith loss of all those memories,sensoriums.<\/p>\n

Before he left,prognosis barely known,
\nmy father trudged his way through the quagmire;
\nthen, book by book, his library burned down.<\/p>\n

The seeds of our dejectedness were sown
\nwhen that disease took hold and made a liar
\nof her clouding memory, her sensorium.<\/p>\n

And when at last I\u2019m put into the ground,
\nor else cremated, ashes back to Gaia,
\nbook by book, my library will burn down,
\nconsuming, then, my memory, my sensorium.<\/p>\n

Heartwood<\/em>\u00a0is \u00a9\u00a0Maeve O\u2019Sullivan<\/p>\n

Haiku 1<\/p>\n

counting breaths…<\/p>\n

a wheelbarrow rumbles
\nthrough five, six, seven<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Haiku 2<\/p>\n

resting in the empty sandal<\/p>\n

a collapsible cane<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"me<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Maeve with Ringu Tulku Rinpoche at the Summer Camp in Portugal<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dubliner Maeve O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s work has been widely published and anthologised for twenty years. Her collections \u00a0poetry (Vocal Chords<\/span><\/a>, 2014), are from Alba Publishing. www.twitter.com\/maeveos<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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