Train coming in

Bio: Aideen Henry has been published in the Irish Times, the Stinging Fly and broadcast on RTE Radio 1. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy XO Literarys Award, the Francis Mc Manus Award and received a Literature Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council. Her two collections of poetry, Hands Moving at the Speed of Falling Snow, and Slow Bruise, were published with Salmon Poetry. She is working on her third collection, A Bloodless Field.

Plasticity

Movement carries you 
yet you can’t feel it; 

in your bed
the earth turning as you sleep,

as a babe 
in the clinch of your mother’s arms,

on an elevator, a train 
a plane, once it’s under way, 

in the slow deformation 
of spinal discs as you age,

in a declining marriage 
before anyone discerns.

Family Vault I tell the children I own half the house; their father will…