The Testing Word

Issue 20, Volume 2: Winter 2011 (The New York Issue)
Poetry

On the bus into town,
almost asleep, I felt
the kerbside branches
scourge the window’s brow.

That narrow road was transformed
to a treeless, clawless way,
but now I realise, dear,
how much I understand waking.

Aifric Mac Aodha's first poetry collection, 'Gabháil Syrinx' ('The Taking of Syrinx'), was published by An Sagart in 2010, and she has had work in various magazines and journals, including POETRY Young Irish Poets. She is the literary editor of Comhar, eagarthóir of gorse, and the Irish language poetry editor of The Stinging Fly. Her work has been translated to many languages, including French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Czech.