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Issue # 5 September 2011
"... brevity is the soul of wit ..."
- William Shakespeare

Bio


Kevin Graham works in Dublin, Ireland. His poetry has appeared in The SHOp, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Crannóg, Revival, Abridged and other magazines. In 2010 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary.


Kevin Graham


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Trick

For all the land was worth
it fell beyond the rushing
grass jewelled with hung
mallow, emerging from our
outstretched necks as a giant
washed-up rusted crane
perched on a stack of shallow
rock, where the Celtic Sea
wished over and over
it could dislodge the trick
and claim it for its own.