When the needle-trees have crick-a-cracked,
\nAnd blossomers have burst,
\nWhen the leaves rust red and fall down dead,
\nThen the fifth begins.<\/p>\n
The sun will rise with two blue eyes.
The stars will fall as fireflies. <\/p>\n
The trees will walk, the rocks will talk,
The rest fall silent as the stalk. <\/p>\n
The fish will fly and swim the sky.
In their hurry, the birds will bury. <\/p>\n
For darkling things will softly sing,
In the ears of killers and their kings,
Make them wail, wither and weep,
Blacken the barley that they reap. <\/p>\n
The seas will freeze, the earth will froth,
The rivers will redden in their wroth. <\/p>\n
As the clouds rain razors, red seas rise,
Rising high to drown the cries. <\/p>\n
For all our rot, rivers will clot.
For all our lies, stars will die.
For all our sweat and piss and spit,
Our bellies will be softly slit. <\/p>\n
For all our sins, the fifth begins. <\/p>\n
This poem was published in The Irish Times Fighting Words magazine, a collection of stories, poems and essays by young and international writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the needle-trees have crick-a-cracked, And blossomers have burst, When the leaves rust red and fall down dead,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[198710,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-462922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-fighting-words","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}