On Saturday, The Irish Times Poetry Now Award will be announced in The Irish Times and presented at the Mountains to Sea festival. Today’s shortlisted poet is John Montague.
Fodder
By John Montague
Cold evenings, as I carried
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bristling bundles of straw
from the haggard or
barn to the byre
where the cattle waited,
jangling their chains,
fretful as children in
their wooden stalls,
her path would
often cross mine:
tracks of boots,
trails of straw,
strewing the ground,
from byre to barn –
runic signs of
silent affection.
From Speech Lessons. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Gallery Press.
