Belief
by Anne Fitzgerald
And what of you, running around
as though some new planet orbiting
a distant star, belonging to its own
solar system. How do you know
shadows are not in the way?
In a forward thrust of propulsion
and downward acceleration of freefall,
theorems and vectors continue to enlighten,
say like the nine weeks of St. Jude, if truth
be told, thought not unlike Medician
torchbearers throwing light on; should
bread be leaven or unleavened, how
bitter Last Supper wine was, or who
had the last word. Nevertheless, a spangle
of light insinuates itself into your way
of thinking, illuminates words as if see
-through paper lanterns yet to be read.
Anne Fitzgerald is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Queen’s
University, Belfast. Her poetry collections are Swimming Lessons (Wales, Stonebridge Press, 2001), The Map of Everything (Dublin, Forty Foot Press, 2006) and Beyond the Sea (Co. Clare, Salmon Poetry, 2013). She is a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Writer-in-Residence bursary at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco (2007). Anne Fitzgerald is online at fortyfootpress.com.
