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"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

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Anton Floyd was born in Egypt lives and teaches in rural West Cork. Prize winning poet whose poems are widely published in Ireland and elsewhere. His debut collection 'Falling into Place', was published by Revival Press (2018) A new collection 'Depositions' is forthcoming from Revival Press in 2020.


Anton Floyd


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Gulled by 5

The onshore breeze carried
the smell of drying sea wrack.
Gulls had colonised the exposed beach;
here and there a sudden flutter,
gobbling sounds like laughter,
a racuous protest soon settled.
Most trooped in their element
prickly, brazen, gleaming
in that seaside, sunlit glamour.
With a pinch of salt, my father said,
put on a seagull's tail, you can catch it.
So armed with belief and a bag of salt
my pursuit began. And that lesson,
how to fail better lasted all afternoon.