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Deirdre Cartmill - Torn

from One Minute Poems by Rancid Idols Productions

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Torn

I see you crying at the gate,
and I am back at another gate

where you hoisted me on your shoulders

and the horn of the hunt
quivered through the fields,

and I saw the horses race
but I didn’t see the hare,

blood pulsing

as its hind legs flexed
to bolt, zigzag, leap,

and I didn’t see the hounds’ teeth
rip into its neck,

then trail its dripping entrails

back to their masters
to blood their young,

and as I watch you weep
I still don’t see

what lies beneath the hedge line,

- the blood stains on your shirt,
the debris on your tongue,

because I didn’t see what you saw,
the ripped limbs flung across the street,

the dead eyes open,

and the wee one floating in the water
in a torn green blanket.

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from One Minute Poems, released October 6, 2022
'Torn' was first published in Poetry Ireland, Issue 129 in December 2019.

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