Meg Mulcahy
Come and collect your ma, she's gotten out again
When sunflowers droop
their tired tendrils reach out for something else to cling to
clutching balcony railings or each other like withered widows who know that life will march on
with or without their wailing.
When I get pissed
I sweat sap and melodic tendencies
melting into smiles of divine discontent
a heart clogged with honey and notions of traversing cities
you have never met me whole
but here I am, more entire a thing than our flickered neon alters.
Trace ink lines in my skin from the day I raised myself
nothing but growing pains now, skeletal vibrations
of tiny whisks beating folds of skin into smoothest
battered sting.
Does the water concern itself with the names we give to things?
there is a reason we don’t recognise anyone until they open their eyes
reduced to a subject line, a concept to flesh out
fuckable. clickable.
I hope this mail finds you happy.
their tired tendrils reach out for something else to cling to
clutching balcony railings or each other like withered widows who know that life will march on
with or without their wailing.
When I get pissed
I sweat sap and melodic tendencies
melting into smiles of divine discontent
a heart clogged with honey and notions of traversing cities
you have never met me whole
but here I am, more entire a thing than our flickered neon alters.
Trace ink lines in my skin from the day I raised myself
nothing but growing pains now, skeletal vibrations
of tiny whisks beating folds of skin into smoothest
battered sting.
Does the water concern itself with the names we give to things?
there is a reason we don’t recognise anyone until they open their eyes
reduced to a subject line, a concept to flesh out
fuckable. clickable.
I hope this mail finds you happy.
Biography
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Meg is a writer, poet and general gowl based in Dublin, Ireland. She copywrites for money and runs on iced coffee and hope. Her work lives in her blog The Social Seagull (socialseagull.com), Crêpe & Penn, honey & lime, GCN and empwr.ie
You can find her very much online on Twitter @TheGoldenMej and on Instagram @goldenmej |
