City of Justice<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s autumn
\non my skin<\/p>\n
the chill grasp
\nof being present
\nastonishes me
\nto wakefulness<\/p>\n
this short journey
\nof my days
\nendures
\nfrom street
\nto street<\/p>\n
like a crowd of beggars
\nin this deserted town
\nmy family forged its exile<\/p>\n
friendless
\nforeigners<\/p>\n
from this distance
\ntheir voice calls<\/p>\n
a voice calls
\nmore like an echo<\/p>\n
there is no reason,
\nneither for our coming
\nnor our going<\/p>\n
from Harcourt Street to
\nthe Rathmines Road<\/p>\n
i
\nhave awoken
\nnot once
\nbut many times
\nto this deserted ship<\/p>\n
sinking
\nat
\nevening
\ntime<\/p>\n
behold
\nthis ship of our sinking<\/p>\n
this sinking
\ngodless city,
\ncity without
\njustice<\/p>\n
where no one, not
\na single person,
\nno longer even
\nhaunts
\nthese
\nruins.<\/p>\n
Dub(h)lin(n), a Poem, (24)<\/strong>
\nCity of Justice (2)<\/strong>
\nfor George Norman<\/strong><\/p>\nSuddenly! it\u2019s September,
\nrivers of leaves litter
\nmy scarecrow head,
\nthis homeless restless
\nabandoned head.<\/p>\n
Suddenly it is September,
\nand the evening closes in
\non Montague and Chester Street
\nand in the alleys and laneways
\nof Ranelagh
\nthe Angelus cries out
\nall its dead, throws open
\nits rented windows<\/p>\n
throws its dead at their sinking sound,
\nthis funeral march of a sound,
\neven though there are students
\nsmoking on the street
\nand your lost sister sleeps
\nher drugged sleep, far away
\nin an attic on Corbyn Street.<\/p>\n
Suddenly it is September
\nin the city,
\nour sorrowful city<\/p>\n
its evening song
\nsinks its drunken
\nbloody head,
\nits sentimental head,
\ninto my arms<\/p>\n
and then these
\nlate homecomers
\npassing
\nlike ships at sea,
\ntheir ships passing
\nin the night.<\/p>\n
Suddenly, it\u2019s the end of autumn
\nand in my restless mind
\ni see him:
\nheart finally broken,<\/p>\n
body left lying
\non
\nthe
\nfloor.<\/p>\n
\n
\n
S\u00e9amas Carraher was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1956. He lives on the Ballyogan estate, in south County Dublin,\u00a0at present.<\/em><\/p>\nRecent publications include poems in\u00a0THE SHOp (Ireland), the Rusty Nail, The Camel Saloon, Dead Beats, Red River Review, Full of Crow, Word Riot, The Junk Lot Review, Dead Flowers, Pyrokinection, Dead Snakes, Carcinogenic Poetry, Napalm & Novacain, ditch, Bone Orchard Poetry,\u00a0Istanbul Literary Review and Pemmican.\u00a0<\/i>Previously his work has been published in\u00a0Left Curve (<\/i>No. 13, 14 & 20), Compages, Poetry Ireland Review,\u00a0<\/i>the\u00a0Anthology of Irish Poetry\u00a0<\/i>and the\u00a0Irish Socialist (newspaper).\u00a0<\/i>http:\/\/www.seamascarraher.blogspot.ie\/<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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