Jimmy O'Connell Poems

(First Arabesque 1937)
Margot Fonteyn1919-1991

White cotton and silk in flow and muse,
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He stands, blue baseball cap and chest waders,
knee high in dun green water; with flick
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Each field could tell its own story
had we but the ear to give it understanding
or time to stand on each overgrown headland,
observing each season since centuries began.
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Tunnelling through the darkness, our train
is rail-cornering into south Armagh.
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on the other side of the silent velvet curtain,
the summer rain crackles and trickles
into the night, gathering its varied voices
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