The Tuesday Poem: Beanna faoi shneachta

Is geall lena shinsir roimhe iad

na sasquatchanna a bhí ann fadó

is nár fhág aon rian ina ndiaidh:

slogann na coillte an smúsach as a gcnámha

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Snowclad mountains

They appear to him as ancestors

towering snowclad peaks

on a morning that would blind you –

sasquatches of old

leaving no trace behind:

the woods have sucked the marrow from their bones

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Gabriel Rosenstock is a native of Limerick and a graduate of UCC. He has published over 100 volumes of original writing and translations. He will read at the Cork Spring Poetry Festival in February.