Eileen McCluskey
Eileen McCluskey writes with a left-handed slant. In addition to her OPP works, Eileen's poetry has appeared in Haiku Journal, 6S, Main Street Rag, Ibbetson Street, and other publications. Her first chapbook, Topless — a collaboration by Eileen and poets Deborah Mead and Kara Provost — was a finalist in the 2010 MSR Editor's Choice Chapbook Series, available from mainstreetrag.com.
(Photo by Jeremy C. Fox)
► Eileen's micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.
Origami Micro-chapook |
Selected Poem(s) |
Cover Art: dreamtime.com
With hope for divorcing and divorced
parents, that you find comfort, and new joy.
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At the old courthouse,
light descends through frosted glass drifts, mingling with dust.
You stood there and lied
to lawyers, the court, to me. I spit on your lies. I vacuum your lies. They fly into the absence of your decency.
I scrub your falsehoods
from these floors where you once walked. I wash you away.
Agony, waiting:
Will he win alimony, or the book be thrown?
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Eileen McCluskey © 2014
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Tornado of blood
may you be gentled, strange beast that tears earth from earth. • Eileen McCluskey © 2011 {/mooblock} |
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Flat tube of toothpaste,
bland icon of our conflicts thrown out with a sigh.
Your ring dropped to snow.
I didn’t feel its absence; just a round, dull pain. •
Eileen McCluskey © 2011
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