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Honey eyes

honey eyes he said
as he struggled to retain to recall
the rudiments of this new language

you have – the climax of his
description of me spilled out –
honey eyes
his were   hazel
the soldier who momentarily
brushed my life

who – returned to his men – was
instantly promoted
and sent no doubt to slay
an innocent enemy
who would – years later – be
unearthed in a mass grave

could a man – now surely
dead – who told me I
had honey eyes
have done such things


  • first published in Cork Literary Review 2007
      and in Lines in the Sand Bradshaw Poets 2008


  • © Anne-Marie Glasheen 1995-2008