Neil Banks lives in Bray, County Wicklow. His poems have appeared in The Stinging Fly and Shot Glass Journal. His fiction has been published by New Irish Writing, RTÉ Radio, and others, and is forthcoming in Crannóg Magazine (Spring 2013).

Neil Banks

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Grave

(Mirror Cinquain)

Headstones
in so few words
tell volumes. Read the names,
figure the dates. She would have been
almost
forty:
not young for a mother back then;
the twin daughters buried
with her were two
days old.