Wave

Issue 23, Volume 2: Winter 2012
Poetry

Children explode through school gates in a swarm
of blue, a surging wave that breaks between cars
held to attention in swirling, shriekish air,
an enthusiasm that evaporates in every direction,
until the stray dog is stray again, and shadows
realign themselves with falling silence, twilight,
a scatter of leaves, blown first one way, then another.

Tadhg Russell lives in Doneraile, North Cork and has been writing poetry for the last number of years. His work has been published by Southword, Cyphers, New Irish Writing, Crannog, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stony Thursday Book, West47, Atlanta Review (USA) and Solas Nua (USA). He was on the shortlist for The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2010 and took second prize in the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition in 2011. He was featured poet in The Stinging Fly winter issue 2012-13. His short stories have appeared in the Cork Evening Echo.