People of the Holloways -The Seer – a poem by Martin Towers

People of the Holloways -
The Seer

I was a Seer, Touched. I inhabited shadows 
and hospital wards, in league with darkness, 
able at any time to drop beneath, besides or under. 
My eyes had it, I know – my eyes had the ache
of skies over fields empty late in the afternoon. 

I listened to the whispers not the shouts.
I could See what was not there.
I could hear the hum at the back of things.

Martin Towers is a support worker in Aberystwyth, Wales. His poems have been published in Crannog, Banshee and The Galway Review.

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