Katherine Noone | WINTER WIND

WINTER WIND

How do you
kick up your heels
with such gusto
at three in the morning?

Your rage rattles
windows  and  doors,
your wails mournful
as  a  banshee  scorned

Awakened
we  dangle  on  bedsides
like  tree  branches
bent  from  your  rampage.

 

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Author’s Bio

Katherine Noone lives in Galway, Ireland where she attends advanced poetry workshops. Her poems have appeared in Orbis issue 167 and 174, Crannog, Boyne Berries, The Galway Review, Skylight 47, and Linnets Wings. Her poems have been shortlisted with the Vallum Poetry Award 2012 and Poem for Patience 2015 and 2016.