Frank Dullaghan
Crystal
She got caught out in the sun,
running from his rooms across the square
where the rain washed the night’s indiscretions into gutters
and skitted off the back of the granite horse
that reared up at the sky.
She was running with her rain-soaked dress
slowing her thighs, showing the shape
of her breasts,
when the sun burst through
and shone on her
in the sudden stop of the shower,
lit her up like a crystal statuette,
her slender ankles gleaming,
her ten toe-nails winking like diamonds.
Frank Dullaghan was born in Ireland and is co-editor of Seam. Published in magazines (The Devil, Honest Ulsterman, London Magazine, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Quadrant, Rialto, Stand, Verse, etc) and anthologies such as First Pressings (Faber) and Teaching a Chiken to Swim (Seren).
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The