Granny

Granny

She was 93 and I think, by now, 99 people came from her.⁠⁠One woman in an armchair, in an old vernacular farmhouse, by a lake, in a borderland in Ireland who drew the world into her like a hug.⁠⁠I can feel the texture, and smell the smell of her fadge bread with hunks...
The Iliad Short

The Iliad Short

Paris goes out with the beautiful Helen,Menelaus’s temper keeps a swellin’Causing a great big war in troyAll cause of the prissy Priam’s boy. Then Achilles goes on the rampage Achaean forces to enslave’til Agamemnon steals BriseisAnd his...
The Unfinished …

The Unfinished …

Reflections of the Dublin Grand Canal, 100cm x 100cm, Oil and Charcoal on Canvas, 2012, Helen McNulty Down Sinking into the wave an inch from earth Drowning in a shallow hypnosis Rippling footsteps disintegrate the built world Leaving a fractured trace of reality in...
The Little One Said…

The Little One Said…

Memory makes a fool of me. I think I remember it, the many sisters in one bed, but I don’t remember anything at all.  I don’t remember my childhood.  I see pictures in Mammy’s photo albums.  I go to that room in the house where we grew up and I try to recall something...

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