Behind an abandoned monastery
I came upon him,
the folds of his bronzed coat rusted,
half an arm kicked off by a rebel,
his tiny face weathered
from too many harsh Irish winters,
his soulful expression somehow mirroring
the country surrounding him —
troubled and weary,
yet exquisitely beautiful.







A sequence of my poems has been published in a hardcover book entitled The Music of Leaving Poems by Tricia McCallum