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To: Rambi who wrote (2958)2/13/2001 12:51:11 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 2971
 
Carnival
~Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

1.

When you rise in the morning
and pour into me
an unearthly music
rings in my ears.
A ray of sunshine comes
slender and spare
down the dark passageway
and through the gap

in the lintel
to trace a light-scroll
on the mud floor
in the nethermost
sealed chamber.
then it swells
and swells until a golden glow
fills the entire oratory.

From now on
the nights will be getting shorter
and the days longer and longer.

2.

When I open my eyes
to come up for air
the sky
is blue.
A single bird sings
in a tree.

And through the tension
is released
and the chill
gone from the air
and a honeyed breath spreads
like frankincense
about the earth
such is the depth of emotion
we share
that neither of us speaks
as much as a word
for ages and ages.

3.

If we were gods
here at Newgrange--
you Sualtam or the Daghda,
myself the famous river--

we could freeze the sun
and the moon
for a year and a day
to perpetuate the pleasure
we have together.

Alas, it's far from gods
we are, but bare, forked creatures.
The heavenly bodies stop
only for a single, transitory moment.

from 'Astrakhan Clock'
translated Paul Muldoon
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