Myopic
Anne Fitzgerald
Too often you arrive,
spreading yourself
slowly and deliberately
across that evening
light, refusing to fade
like a child up late,
or some backwater
shade, where an orchid
flourishes. Pink bits
flower into dusk
as a life to be lived
rustles undergrowth.
Anne Fitzgerald’s poetry collections are Beyond the Sea (Salmon Poetry, 2012), The Map of Everything (Forty Foot Press, 2006) and Swimming Lessons (Stonebridge, 2001). Anne is a recipient of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary bursary at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. She lives in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. For further information see fortyfootpress.com.
