For the next seven days Literary Hub will help in counting down the days until the seventh-annual Irish Arts Center PoetryFest begins by publishing a poem, as selected by festival co-curator Belinda McKeon.
Wants, by Leontia Flynn
Over the acres and spaces and pages and screens
news of what we want comes
to keep us informed. Everything is clean
and efficient. Everything saves time.
There is a new version of a thing –
and I want one.
I want to live each day and love the skin I’m in
I want to lose that holiday half stone.
And when the winter sky leaches and fades out
in town
above Tile Magic or The Game Zone
I want a bed of snow – bleached, whiter than white:
fine Linen
and the sheets turned down.
Literary Hub is a proud sponsor of Irish Arts Center PoetryFest.
