Stephen Connolly

Biography

Stephen Connolly’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, and the Tangerine. He coedited The Future Always Makes Me So Thirsty: New Poets from the North of Ireland (Blackstaff, 2016), with Sinéad Morrissey. He runs the Lifeboat, a small press and reading series based in Belfast.

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POETRY / Winter 2018

Two Lines of Communication

By Stephen Connolly

If time is money then how much might the bookie’s runner’s leather shoes have cost? To start: Tommy takes a watering can and tends the window boxes on his window sill.