Author: Meg Tyler
Meg Tyler directs the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture at Boston University where she is also associate professor of humanities. She is the author of a book on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Routledge), and a chapbook of poems, Poor Earth. Her poems and essays have been published in the Kenyon Review, AGNI, Literary Imagination, the Irish Review, Salmagundii, and other journals.
Sympathetic Vibrations
The clematis vines into its top knot of magenta, each petal as bold as the arm of a starfish. My child, his attention unfixed, strokes the white keys of the piano as his violin teacher opens the hutch to feed Attila the Bun. The mimosa flowers in the garden color the air like the notes …
Life Expectancy
Had I known I’d find my way into this full-blown love, might I have creased my brow less? The boy with his violin, the daughter with her social ease, the husband plotting out the design of Mexican tiles across the floor. In this little house, where the wooden stairs creak and he must sometimes duck …