Bio
Tim Dwyer's poetry appears regularly in Irish and UK journals, including Cyphers, Crannog, The High Window, London Grip and Orbis, and previously in Shot Glass Journal. His chapbook is Smithy Of Our Longings (Lapwing). Originally from Brooklyn, he now lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland.
Tim Dwyer
Hearing of Li Bai's Exile
Sunken in this chair,
gazing across the lane,
the hedgerow cloaks the streetlight,
hides the houses sloping to the sea.
Tapping upon a keyboard
reaches this room,
a message reaches your exile
through my dreams
inspired by the poem by Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, dreaming of his friend, poet Li Bai.