Enda Coyle-Greene – Midday

Greene LE P&W February 2025

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Live Encounters Poetry & Writing February 2025

Midday, poem by Enda Coyle-Greene.


Midday

in the forest
a hunter’s shot

locates its echo-
mate amongst a flock

of reverbs snared by clouds
whose shadows swim

below the glazed midsummer
face of the lake

which seven swans skim:
some single,

all paired.


© Enda Coyle-Greene

Enda Coyle-Greene’s three collections with the Dedalus Press are: Snow Negatives (2007) winner of the 2006 Patrick Kavanagh Award, Map of the Last (2013) and Indigo, Electric, Baby (2020).  The recipient of a Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020, she is co-founder and Artistic Director of Fingal Poetry Festival.

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