THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS by SEAMAS CAIN

JEFF HARRISON Engages

The Dangerous Islands (a novel), by Séamas Cain
(The Red Jasper, Drumcondra Dublin 9 Ireland, 2011)

[each line below is an excerpt from Séamas Cain's The Dangerous Islands]


blood
of a thin milk
mirror

the milk of ouroboros
the ouroboros destroyed by
guns concealed in the white tunics

the milk
also full of snakes
lyrically killed

white snakes
the snow within a honeycomb

blood of the waters
leaping from mirror to mirror

where the snow lies always
two stags
tremble like two agonized cobras

a forest spoke
Captain Poseidon
Lady O'Handrahaun
Lady O'Handrahaun
Captain Poseidon

Lady O'Handrahaun
the dangerous islands
in return for a song

the scent of froth
Lady O'Handrahaun
uttering moonlight
whirl, bodies
wind, bodies
whirl, bodies
wind, bodies
Lady O'Handrahaun
uttering moonlight
the scent of froth
shining like the snow

to the dangerous islands
Captain Poseidon

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Jeff Harrison reviewed books for the past nine issues of Galatea Resurrects. He has publications from Writers Forum, MAG Press, Persistencia Press, and Furniture Press. He has e-books from Blazevox, xPress(ed), Argotist Ebooks, and Chalk Editions. His poetry has appeared in An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions), The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II (Meritage Press and xPress(ed)), The Chained Hay(na)ku Project (Meritage Press and xPress(ed)), Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, Xerography, Moria, NOON: journal of the short poem, Dusie, MiPOesias, EOAGH, EXPLORINGfictions, and elsewhere. You can read his poetry here and here. You are welcome to visit Antic View.