Poem of the week From Arias of Consolation by John Liddy
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XLVI.
One day I will go to Ardnacrusha to appraise Seán Keating’s paintings in the flesh, admire again the swans by the falls in Dún an Eas
the details in Lilburn’s and O’Neill’s maps Thorcor Town House from the 1450s, the Ilen Launchilen from Windy Gaps
go back to Sarsfield’s Rock near Saint Bridget’s Church in Templebraden and walk with Tom O’Grady without constraint
through gaps in the hawthorns and talk of old beliefs discarded by science, the role of Gods in the bought and sold of the modern world
back for some more of the wherewithal from Mary Hanley and Nora McNamara, who helped me scale a boundary wall.
John Liddy’s poem is from his long sequence Arias of Consolation (Revival Press)
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