New Irish Writing’s winning poems for June 2024
Sighle Meehan, June 2024’s winner for New Irish Writing’s poetry
Sighle’s poetry has been published in journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Fish Anthology, Cyphers, The North, Stony Thursday, Skylight 47 and New Welsh Poetry.
The hearse chugs uphill through my years. An almost empty church. Ghosts mostly. They fuss around my coffin, bicker and applaud, these family dead who’ve always loved me. Mahler echoes through the aisles my father come to take me home. A world of music without end, a symphony of stars and moons, seas and suns and solar winds orchestrated by a vast hand, my part hinged like the skylark’s song to blue infinity, the why of me pinpointed on a score I can read at last.
