Written ‘In Synergy’ with Fisher Tull’s “Sonata for Trumpet & Piano”, as performed by William Bing & Tad White
It calls the dead
over the fields
echoing in their eternal sleep even as it serenaded them
on the battlefield
the music of bloodlust roused them
to wound
to kill
to die
Blow, bugle, blow
R A Ruadh’s poetic universe is where farm life, erotic questions, war zones, and snowstorms are all related. With deceptively lyrical simplicity the poet takes on everything from the ravages of a child’s murder to a maple tree’s promise of new life, and erotic odes to garlic.
Winner of the 2022 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Book Contest for “Silence of the Bells,” Ruadh’s work has been published internationally in annual and quarterly collections, and online editions. She is a regular feature poet around the zoom globe, and also presents full length “poetic house concerts” with small audiences. R A Ruadh lives on a farm in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People, also known as the Canadian Maritimes.
