~ Delta Poetry Review ~
Oisín Breen
“The Heart’s Arrow”
although you consumed
the faults of the world
through a thin pane
of glass, which separated
each day, my mind
was yours, for as long
as you spared me,
more than you spared
others,
but the images
that haunted
your waking
left us
arguing
over and over
the nature
of blood,
so our bond
proved kindling
washed through sand:
a pyre of wet wood,
where once
there was
love.
Irish poet and journalist Oisín Breen is published in 135 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, Books Ireland, Quadrant, Southword, North Dakota Quarterly, and the Tahoma Literary Review.
Breen has two collections, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a
Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023 (Downingfield), and his well-received debut, Flowers, All
Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich,
2020). Breen’s third collection, "The Kergyma," is due Sept. 2025 (Salmon Poetry).
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