Love, we must part now: do not let
Calamitious and bitter. In the pa
There has been too much moonlight
Let us have done with it: for now
Never has sun more boldly paced th

Marrying left yor maiden name disu
Its five light sounds no longer me
Your voice, and all your variants
For since you were so thankfully c
By law with someone else, you cann

I have started to say
“A quarter of a century”
Or “thirty years back”
About my own life.
It makes me breathless

‘This was Mr Bleaney’s room. He
The whole time he was at the Bodi
They moved him.’ Flowered curtain
Fall to within five inches of the
Whose window shows a strip of buil

Rain patters on a sea that tilts a
Fast-running floors, collapsing in
Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Con
A wave drops like a wall: another
Wilting and scrambling, tirelessly

To step over the low wall that div
Road from concrete walk above the
Brings sharply back something know
The miniature gaiety of seasides.
Everything crowds under the low ho

Walking around in the park
Should feel better than work:
The lake, the sunshine,
The grass to lie on,
Blurred playground noises

Delay, well, travellers must expec
Delay. For how long? No one seems
With all the luggage weighed, the
It can’t be long... We amble too
Sit in steel chairs, buy cigarette

Lonely in Ireland, since it was n
Strangeness made sense. The salt
Insisting so on difference, made m
Once that was recognised, we were
Their draughty streets, end—on to

Boys dream of native girls who bri
Whatever they are,
As bribes to teach them how to exe
Sixteen sexual positions on the sa
This makes them join (the boys) th