The Sunday Poet: Bridget Seley Galway

Bridget Seley Galway

Bridget Seley- Galway artist/poet received a Chancellor Artistic Achievement award full merit scholarship at Umass Amherst; earned BFA’s in painting and Art Education. Her poems have been published in Provincetown Magazine’s Poetry Corner, Bagels with the Bards anthologies, Popt Art magazine, The Somerville Times Lyrical, Wilderness House Literary Review online magazine, Soul-Lit online poetry journal, and Ibbetson Press, and Poetry Porch online magazine. Her art has exhibited throughout New England. It has been reviewed and printed in Artist Magazine, Cape Cod Review, Cape Arts Magazine, and Emerson’s Redivider. Her paintings were selected to be on the covers of Bagel with Bards Anthology, several issues of Ibbetson Press, and on the cover of Doug Holder’s “Eating Grief at 3 AM”, and Molly Lynn Watt’s “ On the Wings of Song, A journey into the Civil Rights Era”.

Between You and Me

The throw rug lay in waves

from the in and out of our steps.

Our routine rarely counted

with any conscious thought,

in the depth of what we are-

in this place we created,

which was once bare and full of light.

Now remnants of our separate history

echo through collected and gifted objects,

books read or dog-eared.

The illusion of permanence comforts,

also defines what can be and is lost

in every moment.

When we quietly settle

in our separate observation,

we are together- and

 I aspire to keep

in the measurement of words written down;

an account lasting,

past the throw rug’s waves

from the in and out of our steps,

Into the bare and full of light.