We all go into hiding

María (oil and gold leaf on wood) by Carmen Pinart Perales © 2015. Carmen Pinart was born in Barcelona in 1957. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries, especially in Spain. She works and lives in Madrid. You can find out more, and see other examples of her work here, or follow her on Twitter.

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We all go into hiding by Marie Hanna Curran

We all go into hiding

When the wind blows,

Return from our secret

Blinded places

In the aftermath

Proclaiming:

Had we known

And seen the damage as it happened

We’d have skipped into action,

Only

We all go into hiding

When the wind blows.

Marie Hanna Curran lives in Galway, Ireland. Her first poetry collection, Observant Observings, was published in 2014. Her work features in publications in Ireland, the US and India. Her column Musings from her Couch can be read in the magazine Athenry News and Views. To see more, visit her blog here and her website.

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