A strange, humorous, mysterious window out of trauma is both desolate and decorative
An Explanation of Doily (for Adam Zagajewski)You asked me last summer: ‘What is a doily?’
Sometimes, at lunch, I walk on the beach.
Today I was coatless. A storm cloud threatened,
dark as a spaceship. Should it pour,
a sister ship down in the water
An emblem of medieval pilgrimage gains fresh resonance in a more recent time of plague
From an almost whimsical beginning, these verses on wishing to overcome mortality grow lyrical and deeply moving
A new work by Stephen de Búrca
The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation
A journey through a visionary landscape, exceptionally bright in icy weather, conjures a surreal semi-mythical world
A collective dash for shelter in the city takes on a spiritual, near-religious power
