UMBLE PIE:CHRISTPHER MULROONEY

why do you think they call it blank verse
says the drama critic
at the revivification

it's your son baked in my pie
says Inkwell new mine author
son of a confectioner in the upcountry
I cut your son up for a slice
of the great river through the town
where dim lights carry the thoroughfare
out of earshot from the king's barges

out of moonlight
and the strands of music
just heard
a little later on

 

Christopher Mulrooney is a well known poet. His poems and translations have been published in in Poetry and Audience, The Burning Bush, Frank, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Brown Critique, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Renditions, Cordite, Makata, Qwerty, The Pacific Review, Euphony, etc. He is the author of Notebook and Sheaves