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
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)
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