Jessie Lendennie – Quay Street, Galway

Jessie Lendennie is a poet and also co-founder and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry. Her poems, essays and articles have been widely published and she gives numerous readings, lectures and writing courses in Ireland and abroad. Jessie’s latest collection of poetry is called ‘Walking Here’ and she is currently working on a memoir ‘To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky’.

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Quay Street, Galway

There are ghosts on Quay Street
Not the Claddagh ghosts
Who looked for company
Late crossings on the bridge
To the old place
But my ghosts
Left behind on Fairhill
Wondering now where I am
Why the light flickered
Why I can’t find my way home

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