Protect Us From All Anxiety
A wind gust slips into our house
pushing open the living room door.
Shadows of branches and powerlines
bounce upon the sunlit wall,
and though I’m alone
and afterlife has become make-believe,
the guardian angel of my childhood
appears through the window
and sits by my side again
Tim Dwyer’s debut poetry collection, Accepting The Call (templarpoetry.com), has won the Straid Collection Award. His Japanese form and longer poetry appears regularly in Irish, UK and international journals and anthologies. Raised by Irish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, since 2019 he has lived in Bangor, Northern Ireland. He was a psychologist in New York State prisons. He is a previous contributor to Amethyst Review.
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