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title: "Easter Sunday"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/poems/easter-sunday"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "\"Easter Sunday\", a poem by Ruth O'Callaghan from Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures."
---

# Easter Sunday

After, a seagull drunk on air currents battered the sky with white wings yet heaven would not open, not recognising its screech.

Defeated, a dove falls to the ground, its murmuring stifled on stone.

_From Another Morning of Quiet Pleasures (Soaring Penguin Press, 2013)_