start again by. lilian mccarthy

Empty page –

Ha! So strange

To be here again

This side of the glass

Behind a screen

I only write about you

From my body

From my hands –

That have touched –

My eyes

That have seen

No matter what I hide

I can’t hide that

Or you or

Blue from green, white from iris

Gold from silver, a plane from the sky

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Lilian McCarthy (she/they) is a disabled, queer, nonbinary woman who lives in Boston, MA and Dublin, Ireland. She is a Masters candidate in Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin. She enjoys fabric arts, painting, playing with animals, writing, and translating French and Italian work.

Painting by. John Atkinson Grimshaw (Greenock Dock by Moonlight, 1892)