It’s A Bit Shakespearean Innit? (For Scarlett) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

It’s A Bit Shakespearean Innit? (For Scarlett)



The moon’s
a real Lady MacBeth

tonight
dashing about the sky

as if it were her own
private theatre of heartbreak.

trailing her unbuttoned
dress of clouds
behind her.

“Out...out damn spot! ”

“Out...out...damn spot! ”
the trees repeat
like a Greek chorus

as the wind
scatters hysterically her hair

and she throws herself
off a battlement of cloud

to the east

the new day
bloody with beginning

tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow

stained with all
the perfumes of Arabia.

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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