Manoeuvers

Manoeuvers

All that spit

And polish

Bulling

Usual drills.

Old school ties

Talking up a storm,

The throwback,

Clinical smiles

The shades.

Catch you around

Sometime

The fine line

Sloping away,

Trailing arms

And coat tails

The official stamp.

Enough is enough.

Photograph: The River Boyne

Ramparts/Navan

Spring 2008.

Canon

Canon

Dot the commas

Cross the square

Murky as

An inkwell there.

Out beyond

The railroad tracks

They're pulling rabbits

Out of sacks.

Waiting for

Your guard to slip

And then they'll get

Another grip.

Moulding numbers

Into place

From arguements

In civic space.

They never miss

A single trick

The corporals and

Their walking sticks.

Photograph: Famine memorial

People's park.

Kells Co. Meath.

Summer 2007.