Manhattan
Jagged tooth skyline
Crocodile jawbone sinking
Bleeding gum island.
Insomniac Empire
City that never
Sleeps, filching dreams, nemesis
Of winged Morpheus.
80th and Amsterdam
Menthol cigarettes.
Stout pretends to taste like home.
Whiskey runs too deep.
F-Train Blues
Pizza-loving rats
Ride the tracks, vomit scent and
Song of “Watch the gap”.
Vocal Chords
Twisted rope fibres
Embracing breath, vocal chords
Ruining nothing more.
Apis Mellifera
Brave little soldier.
Raindrop ordinance falls,
You tend your garden.
Ferric Oxide
Garnet rust disease
Corroding, acid-like, through
Beryl hawthorn leaves.
R.J. Breathnach (he/him/sé/é) is an award winning Irish writer, Wexford-born and Meath-based. His work has been published in ROPES Literary Journal, The Wexford Bohemian, and The Honest Ulsterman, among others. His debut poetry chapbook, I Grew Tired of Being a Zombie, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021. He can be found on twitter @RJBreathnach and bluesky @rjbreathnach.bsky.social.
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