Shadow and crow, Doolin, November 2018.
The Pier, Doolin.
Crow and Cliffs of Moher.
Cliffs of Moher.
Brú na Bóinne, Newgrange.
Yeats' Tower.
Coole Park.
Coole Park.
Oscar Wilde woz ere, Dublin.
Famine Memorial, Dublin.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton.
The trip had many highlights, but I'll leave you with the last one. I finally got to see Norman Ackroyd's "Muckle Flugga", the inspiration behind my poem "Outliers":
Outliers
Bathed
in Burra Firth’s foamy mouth,
Flugga’s
mermaid coifs
her
hair aloft ophiolite rock, diabase and dark
mafic
glass crackles like static in magic
light
at her feet. Two giants
crashed
here like her kids,
obtuse,
competitive
Saxa
full of confidence,
Herma,
better-lived. The only ones who told her they loved
her.
Long gone,
they’re
sleeping now on lava
pillows.
Silly buggers,
they
couldn’t see
she
was dragging them down with her. *Blows*:
Out
Stack and Muckle Flugga; the emoticon
for
kiss is the same as it is for bitter. So south
of the far north, the
sea, too, cries with laughter. First published in JAAM, Issue 32
