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To: CyberAngel who wrote (3301)3/18/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
Tabula tantum!
The width of a table!

Rispote to Charles the Bard jibe,
"What is the difference between
an Irishman and a drunkard?"
Johanes Scotus Eriugena
810-877


I had warning, last night,
in a dream without reason or rhyme;
But the words may not be true ones:
Obedience is ice to the wine.

Rhoda Coghill
1903



To: CyberAngel who wrote (3301)3/18/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 13018
 
Death of an Irishwoman
Michael Harnett

Ignorant, in a sense
she ate monotonous food
and thought the world was flat,
and pagan, in the sense
she knew the things that moved
all night were neither dogs or cats
but pùcas* and dark-faced men
she nevertheless had fierce pride.
But sentenced in the end
to eat thin diminishing porridge
in a stone-cold kitchen
she clenched her brittle hands
around a world
she could nor understand.
I loved her from the day she died.

She was a summer dance at the crossroads.
She was a cardgame where a nose was broken.
She was a song that nobody sings.
She was a house ranshacked by soldiers.
She was a language seldom spoken.
She was a child's purse, full of useless things.

*-hobglobin-ghost