#Irish #NobelPrize #XXCentury #XXICentury
We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening— Everywhere the eye concedes to Encrouching horizon, Is wooed into the cyclops’ eye
It is December in Wicklow: Alders dripping, birches Inheriting the last light, The ash tree cold to look at. A comet that was lost
I can feel the tug of the halter at the nape of her neck, the wind on her naked front. It blows her nipples
The cool that came off the sheets… Made me think the damp must still… But when I took my corners of the… And pulled against her, first stra… And then diagonally, then flapped…
Up, black, striped and demasked li… At a funeral mass, the skunk’s tai… Paraded the skunk. Night after ni… I expected her like a visitor. The refrigerator whinnied into sil…
When all the others were away at… I was all hers as we peeled potato… They broke the silence, let fall o… Like solder weeping off the solder… Cold comforts set between us, thin…
Air from another life and time and… Pale blue heavenly air is supporti… A white wing beating high against… And yes, it is a kite! As when on… All of us there trooped out
My father worked with a horse-plou… His shoulders globed like a full s… Between the shafts and the furrow. The horse strained at his clicking… An expert. He would set the wing
When you plunged The light of Tuscany wavered And swung through the pool From top to bottom. I loved your wet head and smashing…
To-night, a first movement, a puls… As if the rain in bogland gathered… To slip and flood: a bog-burst, A gash breaking open the ferny bed… Your back is a firm line of easter…
My “place of clear water”, the first hill in the world where springs washed into the shiny grass and darkened cobbles
And some time make the time to dri… Into County Clare, along the Fla… In September or October, when the… And the light are working off each… So that the ocean on one side is w…
Fishermen at Ballyshannon Netted an infant last night Along with the salmon. An illegitimate spawning, A small one thrown back
The annals say: when the monks of… Were all at prayers inside the ora… A ship appeared above them in the… The anchor dragged along behind so… It hooked itself into the altar ra…
Our shells clacked on the plates. My tongue was a filling estuary, My palate hung with starlight: As I tasted the salty Pleiades Orion dipped his foot into the wat…