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Gregory O\'Donoghue

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sherpa
– the cat – has a
half-moon on her neck.

has two
moons in her full eyes: yellowed pages,
i think some secrets

only the middle ages
could have dreamed the demons lodged there.
when she

sneaks around my study
all the wallpictures turn their eyes,

the table shudders when her half-moon steals from
my water-colour of the courtesan

to the woman bathing.

© 1975, The Estate of Gregory O\'Donoghue
From: Kicking
Publisher: The Gallery Press, Dublin

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Gregory O\'Donoghue

(Ireland, 1951 - 2005)

Gregory O’Donoghue was born in Cork in 1951, son of the poet and playwright Robert O’Donoghue. He studied English literature in UCC under Sean Lucy and John Montague and was part of what Thomas Dillon Redshaw has described as “that remarkable generation” which also included Theo Dorgan, Maurice Riordan, Gerry Murphy, Thomas McCarthy and Séan Dunne.
After completing an M.A. he studied for a doc...

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MOONS

sherpa
– the cat – has a
half-moon on her neck.

has two
moons in her full eyes: yellowed pages,
i think some secrets

only the middle ages
could have dreamed the demons lodged there.
when she

sneaks around my study
all the wallpictures turn their eyes,

the table shudders when her half-moon steals from
my water-colour of the courtesan

to the woman bathing.

From: Kicking

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