CSN is 50: Poem: “Footprints” by Liam Whelan (Winner)
Like an emigrant on deck
I steal a backward glance
At the land we leave behind.
This family life
Turns vestige before me.
At dinner I play tourist
And fashion memory’s souvenirs;
I see flour on my mother’s hands
And its dusting on the floor.
Now she peels potatoes.
Now he tells a joke.
This I witness from my limbo,
Stuck between now
And now remembered.