Effort at Speech (after WM)

Issue 48, Volume 2: Summer 2023

my wordpinging, caroming

crumbling under tectonic plate shifts

my wordsinged by seafoam skimming

in the churning hole

Alice Lyons’s recent books are Oona (Lilliput Press) and The Breadbasket of Europe (Veer Books). She is recipient of the inaugural Heaney-Miłosz Residency in Kraków, Poland. She lives in Sligo.