Skip to content
Margaret McCarthy

Margaret McCarthy

Photographer, Poet, Playwright

  • Home
  • About
    • Working Pictures
    • Photographer Bio/C.V.
    • Poet Playwright Bio/C.V.
  • Photographer
  • Poet
  • Playwright
  • Contact
  • Recent News

What The Smell Of Boxwood Promised

 

An alchemical moment
on the side of the unknowable;
a marriage, yet to be revealed.
Summer’s sexual smell
crushed and distilled into narcotic.
Deep, green musk; a blanket
of warm heavy air coaxing
a dream of the impossible —

a waking vision of the possible.

Listen to the poem:

https://www.margaretmccarthy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/What-the-smell-of-Boxwood-Promised.m4a

 

Notebooks From Mystery School

  • NOTEBOOKS’ Home Page
  • Praise for NOTEBOOKS FROM MYSTERY SCHOOL
  • Read the review from MOM EGG

Other Poems

  • 🔈 What The Smell of Boxwood Promised
  • Invocation: Prayer For Creation
  • Summer Song For Strauss
  • An Argument In The Kitchen

In The Becoming: Poems on the Deirdre Story

  • Her Invention
  • 🔈 A Dream of Flight
  • She Describes Their Journey

All poems © Margaret McCarthy

My Other Sites:
Selected Fine Art prints at Throckmorton Fine Art
A Vision And A Verse..
Notebooks From Mystery School
Photographs from the Peace and Social Justice Movements
The New Play Exchange

Copyright © 2023 Margaret McCarthy | All Rights Reserved