‘As you sleep’ by Rachel Coventry

Poetry
Written By Banshee Lit

I watch the flickering rhythm of skin
the pulse of the carotid artery
wonder and fear at its delicacy
and in reversal only lovers achieve
you are flesh and I am dream.

From issue 3: autumn/winter 2016

About the Author
Rachel Coventry lives in Galway. Her poetry has appeared in various journals including The SHOp, Stony Thursday Book, Cyphers, Crannóg and Poetry Ireland Review. She was selected for the 2014 Poetry Ireland Introductions Series and is writing a PhD on Heidegger’s poetics at NUIG.

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