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GERRY MURPHY

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952 where he still lives. His latest collections of original work are End of Part One – New & Selected Poems (Dedalus Press 2006) and My Flirtation with International Socialism (Dedalus Press 2010).
Photo © John Minihan
Self-Portrait on a Christmas Morning
The boy goes patter-pat
down the chilly stairs,
his six-year-old heart
thumping in his chest.
Agog to discover
if Santa has left
that hoped-for gift
beneath the tree.
To find a cold bare parlour,
a childless old man
staring back at him
from the hallway mirror,
a clock ticking loudly
through the empty house.
©2012 Gerry Murphy
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