Martin Mooney
The Resurrection of the Body at Killysuggen
To think it would happen just at the dawn of winter –
querulous rooks startled from bald woods
like banknotes from a fire. We are back in our bodies
if not back in our clothes, even dead children
reborn in the prime of lives they’d never had,
us old-timers struck again by sex’s ambush,
the gravedigger’s shed a boudoir, but so too every
headstone, obelisk, and grass-grown path,
a moss-gowned Virgin tactfully lifting her gaze
over the sandstone wall towards Bradshaw’s Brae –
while hundreds of us are making love here, all
in the blink of a trumpet, a single note from an eye.
Martin Mooney lives in Co. Antrim. He has published three collections of poetry: Grub, winner of the 1994 Brendan Behan Memorial Award (Blackstaff 1993, reissued in the USA by Cavankerry in 2002), Rasputin and his Children (Blackwater 2000, reissued by Lagan in 2003), and Blue Lamp Disco (Lagan 2004).
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