Almanac Poetry: Matins
Agnes de Kiquemberg’s Matins, by Follower of the Maréchal de Boucicaut Master; ink, colours and gold on parchment, circa 1425. National Museum in Krakow, Poland. [Wikimedia Commons.]
Matins
Blackbirds are eating quinces
that have fallen to the ground.
Shirts on the line,
wrung by the wind,
stay wet with last night’s rain.
My girl-cat slouches by.
I smoke a cigarette,
drain my cup of tea, now cold,
and stare into the morning.
(Acknowledgements: first published in Other Poetry [UK], 2008; then in my first book-length collection, Vigorous Vernacular, Picaro Press, 2008, reprinted by Ginninderra Press, 2018.)
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About
Kevin Densley is a graduate of both Deakin University and The University of Melbourne. He has taught writing and literature in numerous Victorian universities and TAFES. He is a poet and writer-in-general. His fifth book-length poetry collection, Please Feed the Macaws ... I'm Feeling Too Indolent, was published in late 2023 by Ginninderra Press. He is also the co-author of ten play collections for young people, as well as a multi Green Room Award nominated play, Last Chance Gas, published by Currency Press. Other writing includes screenplays for educational films.
Love this KD – you paint the picture so well.
Thanks, Col – yes, it’s very much an image-based poem. Glad you found it evocative.