'burnt offerings' by Anne Casey (IRISH POETRY) by #RichardReads published on 2020-02-09T07:18:49Z 'burnt offerings' by Anne Casey swilling cinders of eucalypt forests burning up and down the coast tinged with hints of fear singed possum hairs lifting into clear blue air an earthquake in Italy shakes me awake a mother crying somewhere volcanic embers cycling into smoke of broken promises women's choices smouldering charred remains of exiles' lives democracy doused with lies and set on fire headless horsemen prancing in the coals blackened souls stirring soot from scorched relics ashes to ashes and my mother in a box too small to hold her all laid in a field with all the others when she could have flown with the four winds so I could taste again the sharp tang of her loss married to the rest lately everything tastes of ash Copyright (2019) Anne Casey Genre Poetry
