Clare McCotter
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adjusting the scarf again
chemotherapy
his wife's remains |
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bird-feeders on the rowan
at an open window
her coffin |
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sunshine at the funeral
a chestnut leaf
red already |
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after the burial
he kneads his hands
one then the other |
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delayed grief
on the lightning tree
a waiting raven |
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first anniversary
finding her lost earring
bereavement |
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frozen fields
a star dies
a horse's sigh |
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reading Freud
over my shoulder
the winter moon |
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the mare's eye
still water
a stillborn prayer |
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song thrush silent
under juniper
the fog thickens |
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mountain cloud —
through a mare's tail
the broken blue |
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enfolding
the fallen foxglove
a slug's soft dream |
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windward
in the mare's mane
a girl's laughter |
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May meadow at dusk
red fox spancelled
to a frolicking shadow |
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white birds
over the lake
breaking the news |
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nothing surprises at the zoo
only you
grey squirrel on ash branch |
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his thin shoulders the sound of an Indian drum |
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black horse running rolling back the stone |
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the child's open face piano music from a silent film |
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Christmas Day the weeds on grandmother's grave |
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Holbein's Christ a pigeon's gaunt grey breast |
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Clare McCotter trained as a psychiatric nurse in Belfast. In the 1990s she did a BA in English at the Queen's University of Belfast, then an MA in Irish Literature Written in English at the University of Ulster. This was followed by a PGCE in English at the University of Edinburgh. She was awarded a PhD in Literature from the University of Ulster in 2005. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on Beatrice Grimshaw's travel writing and fiction. Her haiku have been published in Reflexion, The Poetry in the Pews Anthology, Blithe Spirit, Acorn, The Heron's Nest, Roadrunner, World Haiku Review, Paper Wasp & Frogpond (latter forthcoming). She lives in Kilrea, Co. Derry.
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