@Museworthy: 'Little Daffodils of Spring'

'Little Daffodils of Spring'

for Michelle A Taylor

The killing is warm

and separates us,

keeps us going

We run to the dead

as we never would

to the living

There is a secret about this

badly kept

because we know the way

life unworks itself

Yellow leaves the field for the eye

What is cruel finds history

where it may shelter,

find new legs,

and again learn to walk

And there you are

among the little daffodils of Spring

sharing whatever is in your hands

with all who can

with some part of themselves

love what grows

You know that judgement

bends itself back to the judge

That justice

is what the smallest flower knows

BY MTC CRONIN

MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most recent
being Bestseller (Vagabond Press, 2001) and My Lover's Back —
79 Love poems (UQP, 2002). After being employed for most of the 1990s
in law, she has in recent years begun teaching literature and creative
writing at secondary schools and universities. She is currently working
on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart. Her books
are available by contacting her at <margie_cronin@hotmail.com>
or phone (02) 9550 2918.

From Green Left Weekly, April 10, 2002.

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