in the spin of the wheel
in the eye of a sanctuary-lamp
in the fall of trumps
in the heart’s hot embers
in anger’s shadow
in the soul of wine
in a rose’s hundred eyelids
in the blood-pulse
in our wounded loves
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David Butler is a novelist, poet and playwright. The most recent of his three published novels, City of Dis (New Island), was shortlisted for the 2015 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Doghouse Books brought out his first poetry collection, Via Crucis, in 2011, while a short-story collection, No Greater Love, was published in London by Ward Wood in 2013. His new collection All The Barbaric Glass is out now with Doire Press. You can find him on Facebook.
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