Poem in The High Window

I am glad that a poem of mine, Water Diamonds, was published in The High Window back in December 29025. This is my first non-haiku poem to be published in a UK journal (online). Thanks to the editor of The High Window, David Cooke, for accepting it. You can click on the link to read it or read it below.

https://thehighwindowpress.com/2025/12/13/poetry-winter-2025/

Water Diamonds

for Arlene Fox

We follow our noses from the village

and somehow end up at Coney Island.

The heat from my car almost makes us pass out.

There is a row of houses facing the sun.

We leave our shoes, wallets, and keys on the rocks

hoping no one will take them away.

There is a family with a whining child,

crying about something we cannot hear.

The tide is out, rocks are slobbered

with seaweed. The sand absorbs the light.

The water is surprisingly warm this far north.

Seaweed floats like hag's hair, clutching our ankles.

The waves mirror the ripples of sand

and the pull of the water tickles our feet.

The sunlight sparkles in asterisks wherever

we look. You scoop up the water

and call the droplets water diamonds,

then splash me and wet my clothes.

A boat far out looks like a statue,

it's hand raised aloft, promising days like this.

Diarmuid Fitzgerald