Ray Malone is an Irish writer and artist living in Berlin, Germany, working on a series of projects based on various musical and/or literary models. Recently awarded Second Prize in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition. His work has been published in numerous journals in the US, UK and Ireland.

Ray Malone

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Resting in the grass

— after Salvatore Quasimodo

In spite of the light, my lips
lie sealed, as solitudes
set apart; I sleep,
in contradiction,
resting in the grass
where once we lay.

Destined to forget:
day by day,
the dent of freshness
we then both made.