This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.
Dublin Mosaic
In early summer, when music played on Grafton-street
I passed a bronze Daniel on O’Connell-street
making for Mountjoy-square
Windy sunshine shadowed me, through haze, on upward
By dingy flats, on dusty lanes, side-lined with greenery
Curiosity directed me; above the city’s configuration
To rehabilitative air, and the house of a wine-merchant’s son
Lost and until now forgotten Dead & buried
His eyes reposed with pennies
in eighteen thirty-four.
Myra Denise Kavanagh is interested in local history. She is a winner of the Lord Walter FitzGerald Prize and a runner-up in the 2024 Harry Gration History Prize.
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