With hurleys tied to the bars of our bikes
we sped to Foley's Field to play poc fada
until the cogs of hunger turned us
homeward for midday dinner.
In the afternoon we slapped handball
against a sunlit gable-end on Quarry Road,
our palms, red and sore.
In the evening we went skinny-dipping
in the high tide at The Point
beyond the Metal Bridge.
Day after day we spun the chain of time
while the spokes of the sun shone.
Kieran Beville is an Irish author, poet and journalist. He is author of Write Now – A Guide to Becoming a Writer (Limerick Writers Centre, 2019). Beville has had a substantial number of poems and articles published in various newspapers, journals and magazines and five collections of poetry (Revival Press).