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Spring 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 2 • Poetry |

Shock Waves

Sunflower seeds, stone walls, eyes in hiding, phantasmagoria
of the sighted world: I wear white dunes in my eardrums

and it is no world I hear, not even a muffled last lost echo of it.
When the chambers open and shut, shaking the walls, the boat

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Eamon Grennan has published numerous volumes of poetry including There Now (2016); Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems (2010); Matter of Fact (2008); Relations: New and Selected Poems (1998); and others.

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