Message to My Mother in the Otherworld

In the The Road Not Taken, A Journal of Formal Poetry, Spring 2026

I see it was to Kerry you escaped,
impatient, from the demanding aunts.
I found a postcard you long ago saved
of row boats on the edge of Lough Currane.
You may have thought of the bard Amergin,
his, I am wind that blows upon the sea…

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