Sunday, February 12, 2012

New Poetry by Maurice Devitt









Street Song

Step on a line
you marry
the devil
no longer
to savour
the candyfloss
of grace -
instead
the check-list
of sins,
the first
confession
an easy choice
between murder
and omission,
the craving
to beard
the bogeyman,
loosely
imprisoned
in an upstairs room,
the curious
keyhole of mascara,
the too-loose clip
of his mother’s shoes
and in the corner
a wireless
playing
all the best tunes.


- Maurice Devitt 2012








Lost Earring

Did it fall
as you took off
your coat and how
did you notice?
The sudden
slight imbalance
a pin-prick
of air or fingers
expecting
the confidence
of silver
only to feel
the lobe of a baby
untarnished
by the script
of borrowed
beauty?
Spurred
by the curiosity
of distance
and lust
I saw it
quite quickly
in the drunken
shadow of my chair
but demurred
wanting the search
to last forever


- Maurice Devitt 2012



A student at Mater Dei in Dublin, Ireland, Maurice is reading for an MA in Poetry Studies. Short-listed in 2011 for both the Fish Poetry prize and the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition, and runner-up in the Phizzfest poetry competition, he has had poems accepted by Abridged, Moloch, Paraxis, Weary Blues, #firstcut, Boyneberries, Stony Thursday and Smiths Knoll and is working towards a first collection.

1 comment:

Matthew John Davies said...

My regards to Mr. Devitt for the latter.