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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by K E Dennis
on:    26 February 2009

Doc Aay wrote [about Life Class, by John Montague]:

THAT one made me cry. Thank you.

It's a lovely poem, innit? & surely all the more so for those of us who can see, along w/ Montague, the particular beauty of "mortality’s grudge against perfection."

Here's one more, then, for yerself & eugene & all the others who've been so generous in sharing pics w/ the Cyber-Aunties.

Child
John Montague

Collected Poems
Winston-Salem:  Wake Forest University Press, 1995

for Úna

A firefly gleams, then
fades upon your cheek.
Now you hide beneath
everything I write;
love’s invisible ink,
heart’s watermark.


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Questions? Comments? -K. E. Dennis

Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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