The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Michael Grieve

A black background with a painting of a vertical hand. A small red snake is entwined in the fingers and the tail seems to be piercing the palm.

Regal, speared, violent

Michael Grieve reviews Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Books, 2024)
A Harp So Strung with Rain

A Harp So Strung with Rain

by Michael Grieve — It was a long forgotten folk saying / I thought, though one that neither she nor I / had any means of bringing to the open. / Neither our luck nor expertise nor will / would serve us well