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Pinecone

By Seirce Mhac Conghail

That out sprouted from the branches
The brittle egg, bouquet arranged
Neat as a skeleton, perfect, twisted watchcog,
Earth’s clock, absent of a tick.
I press it to my ear and there is no sea.
I try to peel but there is no skin.
Rindless, that bone of fruit, a dragon’s seed chrysalis is
Spiraling out itself,
Mathematics in pirouette,
Bowing.

 

Seirce Mhac Conghail is a student of English and Irish at Trinity College Dublin. Their work has been published in Dodging the Rain, ODD Magazine, The Phare, and Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: December 2020

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