MINING



Quarry my heart

To mine my mind

Ireland

You left me

Blind by design

So that I would break ground

In my own lost and found

And cross that shadow line

With words

That are mine







First published in The Galway Review JAN 8, 2025

https://thegalwayreview.com/2025/01/08/amanda-niamh-dawson-three-poems/