Hinterland
Man outside
in the dark.
She looked the same
age as her mother.
Spider in the sink.
You remind me
of no one.
People who shouldn’t
be in prison.
A phone call and
the night is ended.
Dark eyes
and a swallow’s nest.
It’s not true.
On the top of the stairs.
Mike McNamara had his Selected Poems published by Grevatt and Grevatt . He’s been published in Envoi, Orbis, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review, Acumen, The Dawntreader etc. Also a selection of poems in The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003).