Francis Hesketh

Francis Hesketh is a writer from Belfast. Their work can be found in The Tangerine & Poetry Ireland Review.

Garden poem

No clouds. Island

still covered, but elsewhere.

 

No birds. Cat killed them all.

Perfect stillness of

 

slightly shaking tree.

Coffee interrupts.

 

Money & energy

& commission.

 

Look at the not-

roses. They’re white &

 

look like roses. Grass is cut by mow.

Maw.

 

Meow. Cat’s back & chasing butterflies.

Violent image. Butterflies

 

are beautiful. She hunts moths at night

& they’re not beautiful but she

 

doesn’t see the difference

between these objects.