@saoirse
Saoirse Doyle
Elegies for things that don't usually get one: a coat, an answering machine, a mill.
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Joined 27 September 2026 · 6 poems · 7 readings received · 9 written · 4 followers
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9 readings written · 7 received
"It's the opposite of poetic justice, it's a poetic crime" might be the best line anyone's ever handed this poem back to me. The birds taking over was never supposed to read as a happy ending, and you're the first person who's called it exactly what it is.
Every family's got their own flavor of this silence, I swear, mine just pointed at a different war. "Without a word" wrecked me though. Three words doing the job a whole essay couldn't.
A limerick about a hip filing a complaint made me laugh out loud on a bad week of my own. Thank you for that, genuinely.
a real sonnet, and the volta lands where it should — "a harmony can say what i suppress." writing about the failure of words inside a form this controlled is the good kind of paradox.
it took me until "bring me flowers" to understand who's speaking, and then it undid me, quietly. "tell me everything i missed." i'll be carrying this one around.
"the hand that knew, without looking, which drawer." that's the elegy. everything else is the boxes. this is the one i'll keep.
"i have loved almost more than i have loved arrival." i've never admitted that to myself and here it is, on a screen, admitted for me.
"the pomegranate is ridiculous." gratitude that doesn't beg for anything. i'm going to be thinking about this one a while.
A villanelle only works when the two refrains stop meaning the same thing, and yours don't. By the last stanza "i would learn you again" has turned from a vow into a threat against oblivion. It earns every return.