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CLONAKILTY
by DS Maolalai
my uncle's been told
he's to quit drinking wine
every evening, and try
to stop smoking. has been told
that with both he could live
ten more years if that is
what he feels he wants.
outside of his house
the sun crawls over grass
like a wildfire into the evening.
the appletrees scrag against
sky like a wet mossy
lightning, turned and inverse
and made cold to a black flake
of bark. bees trundle, he stumbles
in his house on the sitting
room carpet. spirals about
like a fly in a pintglass
turned upside on the table
and spinning 65-yearold bones.
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