Identical Entity by Patricia Walsh

 Identical Entity

Vanishing into the cold, aborting sleep,

Not direct enough to swear by old churches

Plants in the corner zapping oxygen away,

The alkaline waiting room cutting its services.

The frosty flight on a cold and dusty morning

Treated like the same, seated appropriately,

Caught in perpetuity burgeoning forth,

Snagging obituary now all that is felt.

Buying and selling you, perfected in time,

The pain in your mind frittering attention,

Walking into the strict transactions nearby

Sentimental toys in the attic outdate themselves.

Prescribed a medication, liked unto throwing at,

Cutting through a suburbans mind, small purgatory

Loving love itself, swallowing the photographs

Listening to the heat of extended surgery.

Colour-coded failure, watching the clock

Professionally wasting the common touch,

The repeated departures claiming the depths

Very few surprises inveigle themselves, after all.

Fear of discovery a perpetual trick.

Laughing through the pain, condescending

Injurious unto tears, the plump vein of the addict,

Cleaning suicide out of darkened corners.

About The Author

Patricia Walsh was born in the parish of Mourneabbey, in north Co Cork,and educated at University College Cork, graduating with an MA in Archaeology. Her poetry has been published in Stony Thursday; Southword; Narrator International;  Trouvaille Review; Strukturrus; Seventh Quarry; Vox Galvia; The Quarryman; seeBrickplight, The Literatus, and Otherwise Engaged. She has already published a chapbook, titled Continuity Errors in 2010, and a novel, The Quest for Lost Éire, in 2014.  A further collection of poetry, titled Outstanding Balance, is scheduled for publication in early 2021. She was the featured poet in the inaugural edition of Fishbowl Magazine, and is a regular attendee at the O Bheal poetry night in Cork city.