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Donall Dempsey
Poems
Oct 30
AN EXPLOSION OF SILENCE
AN EXPLOSION OF SILENCE
out of the eye socket
of a sheep’s skeleton
an invisible cricket
sang & sang
as if its life
depended on it
and when I took
a step
towards it
a twig snapped
and the silence
was as loud
as an explosion
only without
the noise
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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