Anthony Daly

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Drawn, smoking

oil-shapes                                strum                       

 

rain threads                            light

elms                                            splinter

 

sky-shade                                 a

silver-grey                               shape    

 

curls                                            pale

                                                      nails

 

cut wet wood                          crescent

eyes, dark                                 snare

 

lonely

blackbirds                                singing

 

day-night-noon                     cold-eye

                                                                mute-wind

                                                      glass-man

                                                                        blues

                                                     

 

 

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Cinder-glaze

water

 

split orange

sky painted

 

a haunted pine

and sparrow

 

sing

              strung

                                    drunk

blue                                   

 

a                                          

hollow-body

 

drifts four

years

 

downstream

Anthony Daly is a translation poet, born in Scotland, brought up in Singapore/Upstate New York. He studied English Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, later pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the same institution. He self-classifies his poetry as musical-imagist-aestheticm. His poems have previously been published in RAUM and From Glasgow to Saturn.