Your Road
It’s funny
When you get to know a road
So well–
Your road.
You know
Without looking up
When the green light
Is giving you the nod.
You know
To speed up
Past the house with the dog
Who chases cars.
You know
The semi-tone leap
Over the hump-backed bridge
And the dance the bushes do
When there’s a truck
Around the corner.
You know
The house with all the cats
In the window
And all year round
You slow down to watch the sheep
And then their lambs
And then they’re sheep again.
Niamh Twomey is a young Irish writer and student of English and French in University College Cork. After winning the Hotpress Write Here Write Now competition in 2016, her work has been published in Hotpress Magazine, Quarryman, Flight Writing, and Quill & Parchment.