Beneath my feet, layers
assert themselves, I hear
the rattle of old bones,
the quiet insistence
of fossils: stones speak
in hieroglyphics carved
by sea and sand and time
and human hand; circles
and whorls and oddness.
Soil is soaked in blood
and through the blood
grass grows, flowers bloom.
Dust of millennia rises -
settles to its new shape
when I have passed.
Moyra Donaldson is a poet and creative writing facilitator from Co Down. She has published nine collections of poetry, including a limited edition publication of artwork and poems, Blood Horses, in collaboration with artist Paddy Lennon. Her most recent collection is Carnivorous, Doire Press, 2019. In 2019, she received a Major Individual Artist award from the Arts Council NI. Her new collection, Bone House, published by Doire Press was launched in April 2021
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