Eilis : Writing

Genus

Genus

A Poem by Eilis


mythology
Boy walking dog near destroyed building

Boy walking dog near destroyed building

A Poem by Eilis


Boy walking dognear destroyed buildinglets arm loose like kite string,offers voiceless companion to lowwhite sky. Boy ig..
Watching the Yellow River from a Municipal Bridge

Watching the Yellow River from a Municipal Bridge

A Poem by Eilis


Reverse creation. Let's make man a forest of stone. Let's stand on asphalt and peer over steel railings at water. Below a bridge, the water sli..
The Damascus Road

The Damascus Road

A Poem by Eilis


I. On the Damascus Road, Saul approached, unknowing, a newly formed heart. The sand was too numerous to count, like sects forming on every corne..
Overlooking Providence Canyon

Overlooking Providence Canyon

A Poem by Eilis


Virgin, the land lulls. It knowsnot numbers. It swallows fruitand luxuriates, lendingits body to seed. Artlessexcepting the art of beingopen. The land..
The slow-bruise of history

The slow-bruise of history

A Poem by Eilis


Geese bruise the higher sky. In triplicate they travel past the patulous white pimple of a mountain marring our landscape. I can see it in i..
Etymology of losing

Etymology of losing

A Poem by Eilis


Dichotomy. Polemics. Some words nest like blue birds in the smallest hollows of my mind, diffusing until every thought is one color. I can not..
To the left of yearning

To the left of yearning

A Poem by Eilis


George Bailey, youdo not mourn theoutside. The echinated armsof milk thistle--what your mothercalls an artichoke feather.A monarch wisping inwith the ..
Carcinoma

Carcinoma

A Poem by Eilis


My stilting hope. My lowlands of the mind. Heaviness of being. (Seamus Heaney)How does normal become. To wakefrom shock and find that most ever..
Rune, Invocation, Archaeology

Rune, Invocation, Archaeology

A Poem by Eilis


A new language is a kind of scar and heals after awhile into a passable imitation of what went before. -Eavan BolandI made myself a flowerpetaling..