“Mind the Gap” by Marguerite Doyle


Like the sixty-first minute, or the twenty-fifth
hour,
this time will be recalled as the eleventh year of
the decade.
A leap across the breadth of a new dawn, an era of
legacy.
In six months we have grown so old; our children
cannot sleep,
and look how the light falls on the balcony, the
hospital, the street.


Marguerite is from Dublin, Ireland and is interested in exploring her native city and its surroundings in her poetry. Marguerite graduated from Dublin City University in 2020 with an M.A. in Creative Writing. She received a Special Mention for her submission to the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Prize in 2020.