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Aphotic

A Poem by Eilis

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Histrionics of dying love

A Poem by Eilis

You knew I was always doomed to fail

Meditation on the floods of ‘94

A Poem by Eilis

And I think about the coffins floating out of frame. The old television like a box of faded off-market crayons. The luster lost, the proper name a..

Learning to Live

A Poem by Eilis

Like flower petals the days have fallen away. Counting, childishly, all the meals I could not eat, I have stored the numbers like wafers under my t..

In the beginning we discovered the end

A Poem by Eilis

Though you were dusted up from the loose bones of the earth, I was drawn from the splinters of you. Myth begetting myth until we forgot ourselves ..

The wild never

A Poem by Eilis

The sky does not understandnever. Its glassy blue bodyis an illusion hanging over everything.I can not shake it. And.Why would I want to. Excep..

Dreamscape for the doomed

A Poem by Eilis

In dreams/dreams I find it again: like a robin pelted with granite pebbles, the plane tipping limp/ heavy. A sudden gasp escaping as though t..

Extract from the inferential

A Poem by Eilis

My entire life gravitates to ground. A fruitless attempt at rewriting/ escaping history. My mind is a wash of greys and blacks trying to be r..

Auspice

A Poem by Eilis

nothing will be enough. The sea will never take you back. -Shara McCallumNight is a cousin of the sea. In it I swimpast the old. In it the bones of da..

This is the dawn: cold & reddening

A Poem by Eilis

You could not even be delicate enough to f*****g break me over rocks. Maybe you could become the mantis. Praying/devouring me when you ..