Drawing in Water Weed

David Mohan

I watch them rake

the mill house pool

whenever I want to forget

by observing something

opaque,

& when they come to the point

of drawing in green masses

of water weed,

caught in big nets,

shaking apart that obscurity,

and leaving the water

afterwards

a clear bronze gold

in that new light

of having blinked,

I always expect to see

next time I look

faces floating

to the surface

like inquisitive fish.

DAVID MOHAN is based in Dublin. He has been published in Agenda, Stand, Acumen, New Walk, Poetry Wales and Westerly Magazine. He has won the International Café Writers’ Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. His first pamphlet, Wildfire, was published by Against the Grain Press.